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Thank you mdm. Personal everybody welcome to the budget season. For this year i look forward to the next week of our deliberations. A few things i want to note before we start off here. In an effort to hear some of the Department Budgets with different ordinance they have attached to them, sometimes will be calling a few things out of order today. Were going to recess at 11 45 am for lunch and we can being approximately 1 30 pm to continue the hearing. Willie taking Public Comment on legislative items. However Public Comment for the budget itself is going to be heard on monday, june 20. Next monday followed by two more days of budget hearings potentially one more day of budget hearings on june 20 and potentially the 23rd. The of to complete our Budget Committee process next to hear this balance, and for a balanced budget to the board for our the liberation set the board on july 12 to there are a number of departments that do not have budget Analyst Reports. I want to spell out specific
And so im concerned that we dobo what works. And now what were seeing by ; were not out of it by any means, but we helped save american jobs in theu 6 x . Rue auto withi5u home equity and 401 k s and losing jobs, everything happening in the great÷ recession, its beginning to come back. Fewer young people are working. Ii au want to say, the first thought that came to my mind is thats because the folks in theaf taking the jobs now attanc fastfood restaurants. Weve go the yearly deficit and it seems the challenge is for us to make sure that whoever needs a job that pays well will have one job to raise their family. I am proud henry ford had the right idea that despite every bettys criticism at the time they thought he was crazy to pay folks top dollar what i hear from our manufacturers in michigan and right now with hundreds of jobs they said we need skilled people to match the jobs. The number one issue is job training and Skill Development. The president talked about that. So if we tal
Our recovery still has a way to go. Too many middleclass americans hounded by decades of flat wages are still struggling to make progress. And i want everybody to understand my bottom line for this congress. When working families see bigger paychecks, americas economic recovery is going to go from a block to a run. I spend time working with businesses and my state about the challenges they face. Its pretty clear that there are a lot of oregonians and americans waiting for the economic recovery to kick in for them. For the middle class moving the recovery from walk to run comes down to technology jobs, tax reform, trading done right, transportation and temper. My guess is probably every senator on the committee on both sides of the i o could come up with their own list and there is no question in my mind there would be a lot of overlap. There are a lot of lessons to be learned is that policymakers work to strengthen the foundation of the american economy. 70 years ago after winning worl
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