And took it americans back to work. Additionally another piece of legislation we work very hard on in a bipartisan way with the governors is worked to preserve the ability and capacity of our National Guard in our individual states. To make sure our National Guard does not receive disproportionate tests and also damaging reductions that would affect our ability as governors in states to be able to take care of our citizens. So we are encouraged that the house has passed the National Defense authorization act which protects the National Guard core structure and also the aircraft from damaging cuts as well as Senate Legislation that will establish an independent commission to examine the Army Force Structure and about the guard and reserve guard and our state. The National Commission on the future of the army aquifers are the personnel as well as the aircraft, while the provision provides a muchneeded review of the costsaving proposals for both active and the reserve components of the Na
Governors. To identify those businesses that in fact have needs and literally physically bring them in. Then there is 100 million available. The business of the employers why dont they go and train them . Either member when dupont bought conoco. Dupont needed a number of people especially that didnt have on site. They had some 8,000 additional employees. A lot of these outfits are not so sure. They are not so sure that the workforce is going to materialize. They are not so sure the people they are training are able to connect because of the new technologies in a particular organizational structure like the Community College. So this is about marrying them up in a lot of you have done that very well already. As a matter of fact, the governor in South Carolina has created a Central Office. A Central Office within the Community College system. They have the Apprenticeship Programs and they are the greatest guarantee. They are able to raise a family while they are learning the skill 89 if
Middleclass jobs and generate economic growth. I dont know a single governor in any Political Party no matter how far left or right you are who doesnt want a job that yout you can raise a middleclass family and it saves you a lot of problems. You get a choice between a job that is a minimum wage job and a job that someone can make a decent salary and benefits it is the best thing to contribute to your economy regardless of your politics almost every one of those infrastructure jobs are just that. None of them are minimumwage jobs. And you all know better than anyone else the incredible Ripple Effect of infrastructure projects. It means jobs at the end down the supply line in every business and communities in the states. Thats how you build up the economy. Thats how we built it in the past. In addition to the infrastructure, it is critically important that we have the most advanced highly Skilled Workforce in the world. And madam chair that you and the nga ha have been in the forefrot o
United states to lean very heavily on the government, especially on maliki. If you were to point to one thing that has unraveled our ability of iraq as a cohesive it is theesist isis, decisions made by mr. Maliki. Awesomeously, he is so he has so ostracized the sunni and kurdish community, but on top of that his decision to go to the military he just put his son for those of you who saw that his son is now in charge of the military in iraq. He has gone to the officer corps and removed a competent officers and instead put in his friend. Any of those friends have no takes brains whatsoever. The troops have no confidence in the officer corps as a consequence of the decision to sack the senior officers. You have an individual here who go, andp down, who must you saw health the stony al sistani, you saw the shia religious leader explained the necessity of an to stepping down, that is absolutely true. He has got to go, and then cohesively, the Iranian State is a viable iran institution if yo
Be like serving in the United States senate. We actually liked one another than. We actually got along with one another. And deal with all of you has been one of the pleasures. I mean this sincerely, of my tenure as Vice President. And saw a lot of you back at the white house not too long ago, and i want you to know that i want to thank, i want to thank bill for the passport to get back into tennessee. I appreciate very much. He said you here last week. Hopefully youre not coming next week. No, he didnt say that. I was your last week actually. [laughter] but, you know, folks, i probably shouldnt say this, but [laughter] but then again, im joe biden. [laughter] [applause] as, no one doubts what i mean what is a. Sometimes i mean all that i say. But i mean this sincerely. I was thinking about this a lot the last, the last three or four weeks. The greatest honor of my life was to be United States senator and serve for all those years in the United States senate with some of the greatest,