LIVE TODAY! 10:00AM EST / Congressional Hearing on Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee Hearing: "Putting America Back to Work: Reforming the Nation's Workforce Investment System"

Congressman John Kline, Chairman

February 26, 2013 Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee Hearing: "Putting America Back to Work: Reforming the Nation's Workforce Investment System" Watch the Hearing Live 10:00 am in room 2175 Rayburn HOB. Live webcast starting at 10:00 am here. Channel 33 on House cable network. Witness Testimony and More Witness testimony, Republican opening statements, and an archived webcast will be available soon after the hearing concludes on our Hearings webpage, found here. Viewers' Guide to Today's Hearing Committee Republicans, led by Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), introduced a comprehensive proposal to reform federal job training and employment assistance. Among its positive reforms, the Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act will: Eliminate and streamline 35 ineffective and redundant employment and training programs and create a Workforce Investment Fund to serve as a single source of support for employers, workers, and job seekers. Strengthen the role of employers in workforce training decisions by eliminating 19 federal mandates governing workforce investment board representation. Require state and local workforce investment leaders to outline the strategies they will implement to serve at-risk youth, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and other workers with unique challenges to employment. Promote accountability by establishing common performance measures and requiring an independent evaluation of programs at least once every five years. To learn more about the SKILLS Act (H.R. 803), click here.