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 memory serves me correctly and ive asked the staff to correct me, ed 9 result in a programming job in the studies weve done. They had that job a year later but its the surest way and in the job average 60,000 a year in those jobs, those companies where they are prepared to have an apprentice. They arent looking for an apprentice for the 22,000dollar a year job. And so it is the best bang for the buck but its about bringing together we can give you a lot of detail on this program and its going to be you all that make it work, not us. If it works and suits the need. You havent smiled the whole time. [laughter] im getting worried. [laughter] anyway. Its going to work like all these programs you make them work and we will give you the detail. Also i think whats going to help and its presumptuous of me to say this because we are not doing it, im just luck the federal government doesnt do a lot of things really well and there are things they can do better in the states, but im being serious. Buabout what we can do is we can identify best practices because we can grab and identify those things in all the states in the entire country. So he can be a Clearing House in a way and i think what youre going to find remarkable is these mediumsized tech firms who are coming up because there is a market. Theres a market outhere is a mo help people get employed. They can make money and it is getting down to a granular capability that you will be able to have in your department of labor or not. This is what they showed me. There are 42 warehouse jobs in north philadelphia at the xyz plant. Heres the phone number. Heres the requirement. Heres the application. If you cant go to philadelphia, do you want to stay in the state of delaware there are you are qualified based on the criteria that you have met as a warehouse operator you qualify for truck drivers. Now i know that Federal Express needs to people. Here they are. This is what they make. Heres the outfit you can go get help in the Training Program etc. Its going to change but its not coming from us. Its coming from the Free Enterprise system because there is an opportunity here and i think you will be able to benefit. Thanks to you and the president for emphasizing the workforce initiative. Every time we talk to a ceo, the top priority while they like tax incentives and the rate infrastructure that priority is a qualified Skilled Workforce and we are all working very hard to provide them with that. In kentucky we have developed a program called the Skills Initiative program that is an Apprenticeship Program modeled after the german model of dual education. Having the child getting an education and at the same time putting those skills to work in the workplace and earning money while they are doing it. How can the work that you are doing come together with things like that that we are doing in our states . Some of the programs we are talking about you but qualify for funding to do that. I have been meeting with germany probably has the most successful Apprenticeship Program in the world and they do it extremely well so we have some folks over there. Weve been dealing with them here and part of it as you point out is some of it starts in the schools and it starts even in your high schools you have programs where they are can be Apprenticeship Programs in the high schools. There is a different remember even those of you that are only in your 40s back when you were in high School Almost every high school in america had a shop program, had a program where people could figure out whether you took it or not if you had the need or capacity and theres an awful lot of the workforce out there today that is graduating, not workforce but an awful lot of folks graduating even if they do graduate that dont have the capacity to go on to college or the four year college or a Community College that would make a hell of an electrician or auto mechanic, etc. But they never know if theyve had a facility for that because they never work with their hands. The same works with new technologies if you have classes that have for example teaching photovoltaic technology. Somebody thinks. What you are changing into some of you are doing it in your high schools you are changing your High School Curriculum and your curriculum so that some of the courses that you take in high school already not qualify you for it with me to the requirement in the College System so you fasttrack a lot of these people. There are a number of programs in the department of education and anybody that is interested, contact me. You can contact me directly for real. Contact me directly and i will give you and agenda of all of the programs that potentially could be useful for you in the kind of stuff that you were doing so well in kentucky because its a you know, we start off theres almost a sense that since we dont have that capability our population is not capable. They are capable they just have not been exposed because a lot of this is not rocket science. You are doing something in the mississippi. Its just about letting people know, giving them a sense of what they think they are capable of and that requires exposure but i will get anybody that wants this specific agenda programs that can be beneficial. One last question from the governor. By the way i failed to admit we are putting forward a program for 450 million for the Apprenticeship Programs so if you put them together you get a model and view gave any indication that it is worked, but the formula works theres about a half a billion dollars there to be of assistance. [inaudible] good. I hope having a democratic Vice President doesnt hurt your reputation. Not at all mr. Vice president. Im going to hand over to the rehabilitation your shout out because i know thats made their day and that is a Wonderful Program that has made a difference in peoples lives and in nevada. My question youve touched upon and its similar to the governors, i would like to know how we can work with you in terms of improving and aligning the k12 education and Higher Education so that our kids and students have pathways to a Career Opportunity and that High School Graduation isnt adjusted the end. And that they have more opportunity as the moveon. Well, first of all there is again i am preaching to the choir here some of you forgot more about this than i know that this first one i know about. A lot of it has to do with public attitude. Forget the dollars into programs. Let me give you one concrete example. Rochester new york. Rochester new york is the home were used to be the home of kodak. I think that they had 38 or 39,000 employees. No minimum wage job, its all good jobs and varying degrees kind of like dupont in my home state. And they also have a number of other would have become very hightech operations relating to the citation and implements for being able to, like example the mars rover is made by a small outfit in rochester. But, you know, kodak doesnt make film any more and they are not a thing of the past, but i think if im not mistaken theres closer to 10,000 employees today. And it is a load out of town. It was a very prosperous middleclass town. With a local college did in monrovia that he college it went out. It surveyed every business the three counties that had anything to do with topics. And it turned out what you would expect when kodak laid people off it had a terrible impact on the economy, very positive impact on the instincts out of their. They found out that there are over 200 optic companies ranging from ten people. When they went out and surveyed with money from the state as a Community College surveyed every one and said what do you need . Do you need employees and it turned out they all needed employees. They actually have been designed programs that are as little as 12 weeks to two years there are over 6,000 people now with jobs and the average salary. They have the apprenticeships for the folks getting out of high school. So they go to the high school and the Community College and they talk about these programs and the Jobs Available for people that are not going on to four years of college or even two years of college. But they found it a phenomenal thing. They said i dont want my kids having any of those jobs. I dont want my kids doing that. And these were not for phd employees in the research department. These are ordinary people that have nothing to do with it because they said this is something where my kids can end up working with his hands and i know where thats gone in the past. My uncle did such and such and i dont want my kid working in that environment. They have the meetings and say let me explain. Let me explain whats going on here. Why this is a pathway. The kid may start off at 30,000 or 28,000 a year but in this route, you can get the point you can make 60, 70 to 80,000 by having to go back to the onthejob training and it begins to change the attitude. So the first i know it sounds silly but the first thing is convincing ordinary americans that its a good thing for the kids to do this kind of stuff. I think that you will find a those of you that already tried it in your schools as you change the curriculum i guess is some of you that put in Computer Programming you say i dont want my kids to be a Computer Programmer i dont want them doing that. They say well its 86,000 a year and guess what you may end up running. I didnt know that many of them lost their jobs. The jobs we are talking about now dont seem like they are real and when you start to change the curriculum they think that you are dumbing down what their kid occurred or should be. Does that make sense . I know thats been your experience. Its been mine in the place ive gone. Number two, i think you are going to have to deal with that as you move. Second, there is a program and i will get i hope you think hes responsive to you. I know sometimes he drives you crazy like i do. But i think one of the best we have on the team is on the duncan, to put together to get the right people in the department of education that have actual programs that marriott the interest of the Community College as the high school Community College and the four year college. Look what some of you have already done in the states. 20 years ago if he went to where my wife is a professor at the delaware tech Community College in delaware if you have your credits applied in the university of delaware because the Community College was thought to be a vehicle that was not quite there and it was more like going to Auto Mechanic School afterwards in delaware. The curriculum offered and the training and professionalism. Now theres a pathwa there is au go to the university of arizona you get to go to the university of utah state or whatever. You get a pathway so that you also. Youve already trespass on it too much. Let me put it this way, 15 years from now. Colleges are not going to be four years wont. While school is going to be two years and medical school is going to be shorter. The specialists will be more. You will have a whole lot. Why . Because of the cost. And there is no reason why you cant graduate from college in three years in the same capacity based on a course of study you take and how long you go within that timeframe reducing the cost. So one of the incentives we are putting out to all of the universities is to incentivize them to come up with novel ways in which to deliver the same content and education in a short amount of time. The more expensive university, think about it. You think im joking im not joking. I hope you all did not make the commitment to your children that i made to mine which was whatever college you get into i hope you get there. What a mistake that was. There is a reason why that had to do with three children going to the undergraduate schools and schools that were not as good as mine. They went to yale and i went to delaware. But all kidding aside there is a whole mechanism we have and like we did in the top deal there is a same program to get the universities to change the curriculum and modernize it as well as to deal with the cost and there is an entire program of the recommendations i want to make it clear that theres all these recommendations as to how the high school in 2020 should look like in order to serve the needs of the community and the kids but there is a lot of stuff i dont want to bore you with that now but i know that you all look at it with the critical eye is that you should invite will give you a call. I am taking too much of your time. Thank you for all the time. [applause] thank you everybody. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, lets give that the Vice President a great thank you. [applause] and move on to our committee meeting. Our next meeting will be starting very shortly. They both start at three so we are running a little delay. Our committee on economic and development, and also at the same time education and workforce committee. Later on tonight we have the wonderful entertainment at the lime and auditorium. See you coverage of the annual governors summer meeting continues tomorrow. Live coverage begins at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Bipartisana signing ceremony for the workforce innovation and opportunity bill. Baseball does strike me i dont want to get metaphysical about this. I am of the antimetaphysical school of baseball. But its a good sport to be the National Pastime of a democratic nation because democracy is about compromise and settling. You dont get everything you want, and baseball is like that. There is a lot of losing in baseball. Every team that goes to spring training knows its going to win 60 games, lose 60 games. You play the whole season to sort out the middle 42. If you win 10 out of 20, you are mediocre. Loaf,he sport of the half as is democracy. George will on his latest book on baseball and Wrigley Field and the recent controversy surrounding one of his columns, sunday night at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspans q a. House Speaker John Boehner was joined by nancy pelosi and a Bipartisan Group of signsentatives to formally the workforce innovation and opportunity act. This is about 10 minutes. Good morning, everyone. Thanks to the hard work of the members who are here, in a few minutes i will sign hr 303, a bill that will help americans have access to the skills needed in todays workforce. There are about 4 million job openings in america and about 4 million americans looking for work am a but the skills needed for those jobs are not held by the 4 Million People looking for work. This bill does is consolidate jobTraining Programs and provide flexibility at the local level. In addition to all of that, this is a great opportunity for us to show that we can get things done. We can listen to the American People and Work Together on their behalf because their priorities, frankly, are our priorities. With that i will turn it over. Thank you very much, mr. Speaker, for bringing us together. Inc. You for your leadership. Thank you for your leadership. Thank you senators for getting us to this place where we could come together in a bipartisan, overwhelming way to support this drops training bill. Its the recognition that the American People jobs training bill. Its the recognition that the American People are very talented and the private sector stands ready to work with the workforce to provide training. We have a talented workforce that needs the skills to match job vacancies. This is really important in making sure we have a workforce , skilled1st century and trained to meet the needs of the private sector and entrepreneurial spirit of america. Now we have to create more jobs to be filled by this trained workforce, but today is really a good day. Chairman klein. Thank you, speaker for bringing us together. Been a really good week for america and a good week for this institution. It shows what happens when we come together and work toward a common goal. Americans get the skills they need to fit the jobs that the speaker talke