Screeria nigeria. PasAspen Institute this is an hour. Were Live Streaming this event so tweet at hash tag communities that work. If youre here in the room, please quiet your phone. Third, following the event today well have the application materials for the regions on our web site, thats as. Pm communities that work. Thats going to be going live today. And that is all i need to say from my announcements. But its all my pleasure and thrill to introduce to you jay williams assistant secretary of commerce and he is going to provide a word of welcome and some thoughts about the importance of this work to the Commerce Department. [applause] thank you. Im exceptionally excited to pleased to be with you here today. As we publicly launch the communes that work partnership. This an Important Initiative that will help build the critical Public Private partnerships needed to accelerate Job Skills Development across the nation. I want to thank you as spend institute, for the hospitality and hostin
Stop people at their time. Ms. Moore so in that order, representative lee, ryan and lujan. I will stop you. Ms. Lee we know you will. Let me thank you, congresswoman moore, for once again offering this amendment to protect nutrition assistance. You know from personal experience, i know from personal experience, many know that the majority of people dont want to be on food stamps or on snap. They want a job, they want to take care of their families and live the American Dream. Snap helped lift 5,000 people out of poverty in 2013 alone, including 2. 1 million children. In fact, more than 70 of snap participants are families with children. People in every state and in every Congressional District experience food hardship. Yet this republican budget continues the trend of decimating Food Assistance in the longterm and hinkering with block grants which are really schemes that could endanger Food Assistance delivery. Whats worse, and let me mention the c. B. O. Report our democratic whip ste
Support reform and i believe we have a moral, economic and National Security mandate to act. I now yield as much time as she shall consume to the gentlelady from california, ms. Lee. Ms. Lee thank you very much. I want to thank the gentleman for yielding and for introducing this amendment. Let me remind you, we do have a bipartisan, comprehensive Immigration Reform bill. Weve had that legislation since 2013, it has the broad support of the American People. Yet once again House Republicans have refused to take it up. Just last month they could barely pass a Homeland Security bill to protect our nation thanks to this antiimmigrant, real antiimmigrant sentiment, i would say. Comprehensive Immigration Reform not only is the morally right thing to do, but as the gentleman from kentucky said its the right thing to do for our economy. Last year the Congressional Budget Office found that passing the senates bipartisan immigration bill would reduce the deficit by 900 billion over the next two d
Great place to start. There are people in the pack, i do want them to feel left out. Calling colleen hi, colleen rose, i have spoken with Michael Porter at the Harvard Business school trying to get this started in for started for a long time, but my one fear about this is that we may begin to be driven by only big business, and my understanding is that the small and Medium Enterprises are the ones the higher the most people, so how do he teach small and Medium Enterprises how to grow their businesses how do we teach small and Medium Enterprises on how to grow their businesses so that it creates and need to create jobs . Sec. Pritzker we work with a lot of different business sectors in how to help them grow, for example, i will go back to manufacturing we have the manufacturing extension partnerships at the department of commerce where we work with businesses to develop worldclass practices so they can remain competitive. The department of commerce also has the export Assistance Center
Youll see them slow down hiring, stop capital xebd churs, capital will go on on strike, it will be a hell of a mess. Leaders of both parties think it would be to their advantage to go off the fiscal cliff. What a 12 straight that is, that we could win more as democrats if we let it go or we can win more as republicans. This whole game isnt about america, its about you who do we make the demss lose and how do we make the republicans lose. People are sick of that and ashamed of it. Well try to rise above all of this today. Our guest hosts will be doing the same. But before we get to all of that, andrew has shall other top headlines. We have some very Important News and serious news. Fighting escalating sharply overnight. Dozens of missiles seen exploding in gaza. Authorities in india have investigating claims a that walmart violated exchange rules. Direct ownership by foreign firms was prohibited. Walmart has denied any wrong doing. And the news comes a day after walmart reported disappo