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Building on Reemployment Improvements to Deliver Good Employment for Workers Act

Floor Speech

Date: April 9, 2019
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Employment and Affirmative Action

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Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to stand as a member of this subcommittee to support the BRIDGE for Workers Act.

Mr. Speaker, no person wants to be without a job. I think that the hardest and most important thing that we as Members of Congress can do is to support the American worker to not only stay employed and find jobs, but, when they have to lose their job, that they are helped to be retrained--and that is exactly what this bill will do.

This bill will provide better reemployment services. Right now, they are limited. By expanding it, we will help American workers who are unemployed get back to work quicker and faster.

I want to acknowledge that this is a bipartisan bill. It is exactly what the American people need to see us do, which is to help workers maintain their dignity by not only staying employed but, when they lose their job, getting reemployed.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan piece of legislation and want to thank the chairman of our subcommittee and the ranking member of our subcommittee for bringing this bipartisan bill to the floor.

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