My House colleagues and I are focused on providing solutions to unleash economic growth, rein in Washington, and let the American people get back to work. I will continue to work to advance measures which allow the private sector to grow and create the jobs for hard working Americans. Sadly, too many of these bills languish on Harry Reids desk. Pure and simple, one of the most important ways for us to create jobs is by developing domestic energy production. It is crucial to eliminate excessive regulations which are preventing the enormous possibility for growth in energy production. Developing these new sources of energy will produce real wealth, jobs, and energy security for the American people. The House has passed multiple bills to promote job creation in the energy industry, including: • National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act (H.R. 761), which removes burdensome regulation from the mining industry, prevents abuse of litigation against mining corporations, and expedites the extraction of critically important rare-earth and other strategic minerals; and • Northern Route Approval Act (H.R. 3), which approves the Keystone pipeline, which would create thousands of jobs, and removes regulatory obstacles which could delay its construction for years. The Houses pro-growth agenda not only focuses on reducing regulatory barriers to job growth, but on making sure those seeking jobs have the opportunities and skills they need to secure quality jobs. Among these measures are: • SKILLS Act (H.R. 803), which contains several reforms to our nations workforce development programs, including streamlining duplicative job training programs, eliminating federal mandates on local governments, and permitting more flexibility for states to determine who is eligible to provide job training services. The legislation also closes job training centers which are ineffective and increases the job training focus on basic literacy and math skills; and • Student Success Act (H.R. 5) which, among many reforms, consolidates more than 70 existing education programs to lessen Washingtons role in education, collapses funding into a streamlined Local Academic Flexible Grant program to states and school districts to support local priorities to improve student achievement, and repeals the federal Highly Qualified Teacher requirements, and instead would allow states and school districts to develop and implement teacher evaluation systems locally in order to measure an educators affect on student learning. If President Obama and the Senate are serious about growing the nations private sector and eliminating barriers to economic growth they would support the numerous jobs measures passed by the House which are languishing in the Senate.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:01:53 +0000
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