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Just mentioned to make sure that the state worker training boards address the needs of those. but what s happened thus far is it s been a micro management situation in washington with 50 different programs where you have the unemployed having a lot of difficulty understanding how to navigate that maze. the vision here is to set up a one-stop shop in all the regions in each state around the country, allow unemployed workers to come in and say, i m desirous of going back to work. the state knows in its area of the country where the available jobs are and believe me i was told today in northern virginia alone there are 600,000 unfilled positions by the year 2020. that means skilled work force is an issue. we want to make sure the unemployed workers have these skills to get the jobs. the skills act is the way to do it. you can see our full interview with the house majority leader eric cantor. that comes up 6:00 p.m. eastern ....
Evidence of the gallup poll that was out lately about the president s approval rating, you know, i think that clearly people are tired of political gains in this town and they want to see resolution of some problems. we remain committed to trying to resolve problems. we remain committed to try to help those unemployed. we ll be bringing up the skills act next week, a bill that i think both sides can come together on and to provide some assistance for those who don t have the right kind of training or skills so they can access the unfilled jobs that are out there in many of the industry sectors. as just heard as we leadership with the gop leadership, many of us were thinking as kevin mccarthy cut him off, but the significance of this is that we re clearly in a very important week. not only are we dealing with spending cuts that are now about four days old, the likes of which we haven t seen before, the feelings of which we may not ....