Guest good morning. About yourou tell us journey and that you represent Silicon Valley and what it means . An extraordinary district. Apple, google, cisco, linkedin, the heart of innovation for the nation and in some instances, the world. One of the thing we are focused on is who has been left behind from the Technology Revolution . How do we bring tech not only in my district but across the country . How do we prepare people for the jobs of the future . To dowhat is the best way it and the best way for the congress and white house to do it . I am in march going to appellation, western kentucky. There is a program, 40 folks, some sons and daughters of coal miners, a four month class, they are learning ios software and after four months, they are going to have a form was apprenticeship and then have jobs. The challenge is to figure out not just trained in the abstract but the right skill that are going to lead to jobs. It does not always mean for your degrees but working to figure out what the skills will be. Host with the discussion of technology is people coming into the country especially on the h1b one visas, this administration has taken stances about to those coming in a. Breaking of people in for the jobs and security and who let in the country . Guest we have to have a balance. A lot of Silicon Valley was immigrants built by. Steve jobs was the son of syrian parents. The h1b one Program Needs to be revised. Theres been a lot of abuse where it hurts low income, paying below market prices and hurts American Workers. Grassley and garment and gergen had a bill. Reforming it makes sense. Host our guest will be with us for the half hour, if you want to ask about job creation and issues surrounding that. 202 7488001, foor republicans. 202 7488000, democrats. 202 7488002, independence. Are there areas you find agreement and disagreement on like . Guest it is a message all we will bring the old jobs back and on tax policy. The biggest thing we need to do is to help prepare false revenue jobs, the jobs that will exist. A professor at berkeley said a tech job, one creates 4. 5 jobs. Once you have a tech job, italys tofu services and construction, how are we going to prepare folks for these new jobs and invest in these new jobs . What to have a tech job, it leads to Food Services and construction, how are we going to prepare folks for these new jobs and invest in these new jobs . We have to focus on how we will prepare the future workforce and invest and bring the new jobs and that is what has been missing in the debate. Host are there Lessons Learned in Silicon Valley and how they prepare folks for these types of future jobs . Lessons in terms of the partnership with Community Colleges and the private sector. Merritt college has a program in cyber security, a twoyear program. They help train folks and currently we need to under 40,000 unfulfilled job 240,000 unfilled jobs. They are getting good paying jobs, 80,000 after the program. They are working in ohio to replicate it is there. There is there. Theres a lot of innovative programs that can help people have access to some of these jobs in the future. Host being on the budget and Armed Service committee, in matters of budget, we will see a budget from congress. A first timer, what are you learning about the experience, what should we expect . Big differencea of values. One of the thing a lot of folks campaigned in 2016 was income equality and helping workingclass families. Even a president said a lot of people have been left behind. Will the budget reflected those priorities . For what we are here, the president s budget will have massive tax cuts for the most well off. I would rather see tax relief go to working families. 2he is going to propose trillion in tax cuts for the most wealthy, we could have an earned income tax credit which would help working families and get relief to the people who have been left behind. Is the budget going to be trickledown economics or is it going to help working families . Host and concerns of tax cuts for business as the Trump Administration wants to keep more jobs in america . I do. Repatriation. A lot of these Tech Companies would benefit. If they bring the money back from overseas which the president keeps talking about, will it going to stop the buybacks and help shareholders and pay more dividends . Or will it create more jobs . I what to see policies that will actually go instead of Incentivizing Companies to buy and helping working families and middleclass wages. That is a big philosophical difference. , our guest. Nna is in South CarolinaSouth Carolina, independent line. You are on. Go ahead. Caller please dont cut me off. H1b one visas, highend visas, can you hear me . Host go ahead. Caller google and microsoft petitioned the government covering and more people with high and diseases. A lot of people get that the United States graduate from m. I. T. That can do those jobs. They do not give them the chance. I do not understand it. The workforce of the future, everybody talk about automation. What are all of these people want to do coming into this country illegally that we do not want to send back . Sued by anwas individual that they higher mostly indian intel. Another company was sued because they would hire mostly hispanic workers. I am at a cross point in my thinking on the United States. Is it to drive down the pay for everyone . Host thank you, caller. Guesstimate i appreciate you and i appreciate the h1b one visa program has faced abuse and we should not just be increase the debt without performing it. Senator grassley and durbin have proposed a bill that would make sure we were not underpaying h1b visa holders and making sure we were prioritizing those folks who had education in the United States and these h1b visas were not being used to displace American Workers or older workers. Have aso, we can bipartisan consensus on reforming the program. In terms of automation, youre right. Teresa concerned that technology is creating productivity gains that is changing the workforce. That does not mean it will just reduce jobs, it may actually increase jobs. Go toample, if we driverless cars, it may mean trade drivers need different skills but we are not without trucks Truck Drivers need different skills but were not without trucks without people driving them. They would understand the machine they would have to work. I do not think automation will remain we do not have a human workforce. Host glynn, democrats line. Go ahead. Today . How are you doing umm, i really feel like with the donald trump doing all of these things and putting betsy devoss as secretary trying to run education, how are we going to, you know, put in jobs . Know . S his plan, you how is that going to solve anything . Caller i appreciate the question. I have deep concerns with secretary devos and opposed the nomination of parliament because i am the product of Public Schools. I am the son of immigrants. Almost 90 of americans go to Public Schools. We have to invest in Public Schools to make sure people have the opportunity to be a part of the new economy. I share the callers concerned that the administration is not focus on the type of investments in k12 education and skilled, vocational and apprenticeship programs that will be necessary to prepare for the jobs of the future. Host what about charter in magnet schools, science technology, stem jobs, would you support that kind of effort . Charterwe have good schools my district within the Public School system. I am supportive of Charter Schools within the context of Public Schools because they create innovation. I a more skeptical when they are outside of the Public School system because that is taking resources away from public affirming this privatization of schools which i do not agree. Which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] is there a host revamping of the Public Schools at that would help with the jobs you were talking about . Guest we need a skillbased focus especially for some folks we know may not go toe for your degree colleges who may not go to fouryear degree colleges. I gave you the ios software as an example. We do not have a nonvocational focus, another skilled focus. A lot of folks graduate from high school not forgetting to a fouryear degree and caught in the middle without employment prospects. Int lets hear from Michael North carolina, republican line. Youre on with representative ro khanna of california. Forer i have a question you. I am 63 years old. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, corporations like yours used to talk with Community Colleges and the colleges and let them know what they were going to be needing as far as technicians and stuff in the future. They would even help pay for the education of these people in order to get to those people in their jobs. For some reason, it seems like everything is going backwards. You want to bring in skilled laborers from overseas and put everybody in welfare. It does not make any sense to people. I do not know what country i live in anymore. It since i we are losing the american identity because everybody wants cheap lieber. The reach keep getting richer. Want cheap lavebor. The rest of us are stuck. Guest i appreciate your perspective. I support what you are saying that these corporations should be working with our Community Colleges and investing in our Community College to give folks the skills, the jobs that are going to be here. We know the American Workforce is the most productive workforce in the world. Six times as productive as china or india, 1. 5 as productive as japan and germany. It makes sense to address and work source and wouldve not been doing that. We do need reform on this h1b visa program. One of the things i suggest if youre going to have somebody come in on h1b visa, these companies should be paying for at anears and colleges American University for the skills they say are missing. We need to focus on our workforce and we can and making sure they have the opportunity to have these jobs. Host from john in california, independent line. You are next. Caller yes, thank you. I thank you representative coming. I thank you for im sorry i am rather confused here. I have to agree with a lot of the stuff you are saying. When it comes to camelot, california, where you come from, i think you have to give trump a chance and the new administration a chance rather than falling back on the what happens what happened to our school system. We have to get more Charter Schools going. Even the public Charter Schools, which we show there is progress, but when it comes to the regular schools, if you want to say, really falling apart. You are going to have to talk to our Governor Brown when it comes to that. You can continue on from there. Guest i appreciate your question. It is true. We need far more investment in k12 education. One of the things we need is a preschool. We know by the age of five, a persons vocabulary gives them a shot of success. We need to do a much better job of making preschool acceptable to more people in this country. We need more resources for it technical and stem education. As i said, i support Charter Schools within the Public School context. I do not think the privatization of schools, private charter to be part ofing the system when almost 90 of people go to Public Schools. Host your thought on antipulitzer with experience pudzer, would you support him . Guest im opposed to him. It has nothing to do with his personal life. I do not like to go after people personally but his policy. He has opposed the minimum wage. He has not been for overtime protection. He has not been for stricter labor enforcement. In the fast Food Industry workers he has come from, systematically underpaid workers. I would like to see a philosophical case made against him. The wrong person to head a labor but i hope we can keep the personal stuff out. You would oppose 15 minimum wage or Something Like that . What would like to see from the Labor Department . Guest i think the 15 minimum wage is achievable. California, it would not hurt business. I close from the sixth wealthiest district in the country. It has to companies with the largest market cap apple and google. Were doing great in terms of Economic Growth. 15 minimum wage is not going to hurt that Economic Growth. I think it is a false charge to say we need to choose between Economic Growth and minimum wage. Host apple and google are different from other companies . At is and we can look there a for a Small Business . Is there a regional way of indexing minimum wage . The larger aspiration we need to move towards a minimum wage so that people can have a quality of life in this country and we can deal with income inequality as a bipartisan goal. Host he serves a different color for you that deals with Silicon Valley and the vice chair of progressive caucus. I am one of the cochairs. I believe we need to resync some of the rules of our economy. We need to figure out how we that hasck buybacks been helping shareholders at the expense of workers. We need to figure out how we can have a financial transaction tax so we do not have speculation on wall street. Some of my economic views about restructuring our economy to voice iners lend me a the progressive caucus and i was honored to be one of the vice chairs. Host from massachusetts, democrats line. Go ahead. Caller good morning, guys. I want to touch on your point a little bit just with the income equality. One all try trumps first moves obama was going to do a rate cut for home loans which would help low income people and people were buying their first directly his actions of lower income people and it is it is not talked about. We can look at his Campaign Promises of helping the middle class as that is all he wants to do. He does not want to help the lower class at all. I appreciate your perspective. You raise a great point about the way we do business in washington, the rules we write whether they will help the rich or middle class. Rate cutsn example of for mortgages. There are many more examples. Will we have an sdc program that provides broadband for many americans, low income americans . Or do what the current chair which is cutting access of the broadband to low income americans . Are we going to have rules in the economy that are going to have corporations invest in their workers to give shareholder or to give shareholders more dividends . We have to structure the rules of our economy in a way that is helping ordinary americans again and not just large corporations. Thats a big philosophical difference that i and many of my colleagues have with the Trump Administration. Host our guest was appointed by governor jerry brown to be on the workforce Investment Board and he served under the Obama Administration and hot at stanford and taught a university of stick at stanford. I am [indiscernible] she did it illegally. She is very proud of that. I know you are part of a state that also encourages people i dont know how to really connect to those two together really well. Sometimes, the person who did it the correct way or the way the government asked them to is somewhat irrelevant. And i thought you are taking care somebody who did know what to do it in the first place and they just came over. That is my comment. And i appreciate your concern. Guest i appreciate you sharing your story. I am the son of immigrants. My parents came near and the 1960s. My father came during sputnik when they said we want engineers and he came here on a green card. My mother came on a green card. They became citizens. I was born in philadelphia and our bicentennial year. Most immigrants in this country and in particular in my district came here through legal channels. They came here because they wanted to see the american. They are some of the most patriotic people i know. One of the challenges we have is a country in terms of gdp growth is the labor supply. If you look at what our biggest limiting factor is we do not have enough workers. One of the reasons we had Economic Growth from the 1950s through the 1990s is we had women coming into the labor market and they gave a huge shot up to were gdp. If you care about american exceptionalism and economy in the 21st century, we need a strong labor workforce and we want at the best and brightest comment here. National not be a partisan issue. Host democrats line. Go on. Caller thank you for taking my call. Richard andgo to california. Republican line. Hello. Caller good morning. Representative, i would like to the Lottery Program in california and how that supporting the Public Schools and what percentage actually goes to the school system. Guest a good question. I do not know the details. I will have mys half look it up. My staff look it up. I do not want to give an answer that i am not briefed on a. Ask about a to situation regarding Michael Flynn and the role the house should be at this time. The facts. Eed to theyre disturbing allegations that somebody so close to the president , National Security adviser was communicating with a Foreign Government before they assumed office. We needed to know how long was this communication going on and who knew about this communication. Did the president know . This is not a partisan issue. It is a question of was therefore influence on our decisionmaking was there for influence on our decisionmaking . I am hopeful that senator mcconnell yesterday talked about Senate Investigation and so i think the house should follow their lead. It should not be partisan. We need to know the facts. I hope the house will do what the senate is likely to do and have an independent factbased investigation. Host lets go to wanda, democrats line. Youre on with our guest. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I am in tennessee and we have this thing called from school to jail. I do not agree with her because i am an Early Childhood major and i believe i could teacher from if you give me the curriculum, i could create my own curriculum. Ok, 12 years of education goes into one person and then they get out of school and they have no job. I was wondering, if a person goes to the eighth grade, can they get as much education as they can and then began to work or use the other four years to take College Courses . California,d then, there were talking about being an independent place, independent state. People withing entrepreneurial spirit, with a benefit from less policy would is a benefit from less policy toward jobs and put more the policy toward the officials that as not being held accountable to a lot of the people . They like taking their money and running with it and put more they cannot doso anything. Host thank you. Guest i appreciate your point. Your point about school to jail, 70 million americans at some point will face an arrest in this country. It is a staggering statistic. Almost 20 20 5 of our population. In providing more people with opportunities so they do not end up in jail or arrested. I think you hit the nail on the head in terms of focusing on skilledbased education. After a for, was skills are we going to give folks so they will have a real job . A lot of politicians give speeches about job Training Programs and folks feel like it is empty rhetoric and it does not lead to actual jobs because some of the Training Programs are obsolete and not providing the right skills. We have to focus on actual vocational educational or skills that is going to lead to employment and to give companies to have commit to having the jobs there. Host this administration has focused on the idea of regulatory rollback or made loosening regulation for business, is it a good idea especially for Silicon Valley businesses that may benefit . I am not that concerned about the Silicon Valley business is doing ok. Google and facebook and apple, they are doing just fine. They have a lot of innovative folks and they will do great things for our nation and the world. I am concerned about the people who do not have the opportunity to work at google or apple or facebook who also have to deal with the Software Revolution that our nation is facing. Who will create opportunities for them . How will we have base of fairness for the middle class . A lot of the regulatory rollback that the administration is proposing is not going to help people in main street and not going to help the middle class of the needs the help. Host why not . Of a like the example repatriation, it is going to allow corporations to get more funding and money back to shareholders. In other cases, it is going to hurt environmental standards. Gutting so much of the epa and it may make it easier for companies to do business here. What about the young folks who have asthma or young folks were living in communities and are going to face more pollution . Onother cases, the rollback Worker Rights and basic worker protection. We need workers to have a bigger voice in an economy were operations have to much influence and a lot of profit and the workers are not getting a fair share. My concern is not for the corporate interests and this country, the corporate profits at a record high. Fine. Op market is doing my concern for all of the people not participating, those are the people who spoke of this election whether you voted for trump,sanders or donald people were saying the system is not working for us. We should not allow policies that will double down on wall street the policies that will help them. Host one more call. Michael, baltimore. Republican line. You are on with ro khanna. Caller can you hear me . Love cspan. Firsttime caller and i will be quick. I am originally, born or raised and raised born in saratoga. My family on a business, a small retail shop. It has been doing really well for the past few years. He mentioned about the minimum wage and how it would be better implemented across the country. The area in which the congressman is in charge of is a very, very what the area and it will have a lot different restt on the area than the of the nation. How do you know a single minimum wage for the entire nation is not going to be nearly as successful as you might think and will put a lot of businesses out of business, especially since my parents, despite the fact that had a good three years , they actually ran into a huge problem with payroll in january that went up. And, they are even having trouble to even make payroll because of that. They are going to close shop at the end of the spring partially because of that. Host thank you. Uest thank you for calling in we need more engaged citizens. I was in baltimore for the house retreat and they have the best cannolis there. I hear your perspective in terms. F Small Businesses it is not a onesizefitsall solution. Certainly, we shall look at if there is a Small Business under a certain amount of employees, do we exempt them from a minimum thoseequirement and help workers through the expansion of the earned income tax credit and other means . Aspirational he, having a 15 minimum wage for some of the bigger corporations, walmart, big retailers, the food service industry, big Tech Companies that can afford it makes sense. Certainly as sympathetic to the idea that there may be Small Businesses like your parents data may need to have some exemption. There may not be a one of cross the country. Host we have been talking with representative ro khanna, democrat