why is that? what are we doing? what are we doing? infrastructure used to be -- and i served the united states senate for 36 years -- used to be the only fully totally bipartisan issue there was. when that all of a sudden our memories go dim? the plan we've put forward were open to other suggestions related to that was a plan that existing taxes, closing tax loop holes and rewarding companies, that reward companies for going overseas. there may be other combinations. this is the way you pay for it. in the investment infrastructure will create millions of

middle-class jobs and generate economic growth. i don't know a single governor in any political party no matter how far left or right you are who doesn't want a job that yout you can raise a middle-class 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 minimum-wage 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. that's how you build up the economy. that's 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 of this. you've been focusing on the workforce investment and i believe that without your help congress wouldn't have passed the workforce innovation opportunity act. again, you did it. because of your work and leadership you've been able to reestablish a bipartisan consensus on the workforce innovation and the opportunity is worth investing in because prior to this all these programs were worth less. let's cut them all out. that was the one argument going on and the other one was it's not going to have to change. well, no. but there is a need both for

significant reform as well as a significant investment. the act that just passed increases funding levels by 17% and eliminates 15 programs and increases the accountability to make sure the programs are getting the job done. that is how many workers as the program placed. how much are those workers earning? are they on the job six months later? because if they are, the program is and worth it and we should apply standards to it, that we should have the program, programs that provide flexibility that you ask for in your discussion with me and my staff as well as the hill by allowing the funding to be used because you know better than anybody else to train people already on the job so they can improve the skills an their skip the career ladder.

i'm probably the most accessible vice president in a long time just because i get to go home. i still ride amtrak. and i go home. i go through your train station more than you do. [laughter] but here's the deal, what do you heahere at home? more people are getting jobs. if those people had jobs that had been totally stagnant for the last two, four, six years you figure it out. you talked about the need to invest in people with jobs now to increase the capacity so they could move in addition to those who are unemployed but we still have a lot more to than just passing the act because it is absolutely necessary we have that skilled workforce to maintain the 21st century.

that is a given. by the end of this decade more than six out of every ten jobs are going to need a form of postsecondary education whether it is a bachelors degree or associate in some form of program and manufacturing facility. there are over 100,000 manufacturing jobs in the nation sitting empty because they can't find a skilled workforce to meet the job. go to the stat state and wisconn and you've been working on this. they open a big new plant and find out they work with the local community college and bring the machinery and off the floor into the community college and bring their own managers into the community college with

some help from the federal government through our program train these folks. i think a player i up there it 8 week program. don't hold me to the exact number but it's like a conveyor belt. salaries are $850 if memory serves me correctly. by the end of the decade, the boston consulting group which is ahead in the last ten years estimates the number high skilled manufacturing jobs needed in the united states will be an additional 875,000 a lot of them are sitting empty right now but by the end of the decade we need 300,000. we have done an extensive survey since the president asked me to take on this responsibility to come up with the new job training initiative. 300,000 more software developers are going to be needed. you know what the average salary

is in today's stock dollars? $87,500 average salary. we need 12,000 more computer network support specialist salary is. they are the folks in the companies were in your offices that keep your systems running in-house. average salary, $59,000 a year. we need to have a million more nurses. average salary, $65,000 a year. we need 30,000 more physicians assistants. average salary, $91,000 a year. we need 10,000 more petroleum engineers average salary, $130,000 a year. you don't have to tell the folks from oklahoma and texas and many other states about that. by the end of the month i'm

going to deliver to the president and all of you with an extensive job training strategy that has attempted to meet these needs. many of the strategies are directly from the conversations. the path to the employment is to create more partnerships between employers and the community college and nonprofit organizations. what have you done up their? it works. the president's job council put together the, quote, right skills now program. the governor in nevada has done a hell of a job with this. you really have. you've taken an idea and you've made it work. you've got employers which makes the planes, ships, trains. is that the correct

pronunciation in the community college? the master curriculum. he came in and told them what you need it. you set it up for them and the department of labor whatever it is in question you put them together and these are good jo jobs. my buddy in new hampshire had a great program that provides on-the-job training for companies that higher unemployed workers directly into open positions and train them while they are in those positions because they got the high-tech stuff up there already. watch them put it in action. there was one that was an engineer and guess what. he had worked as an engineer for a large company for 31 years. he was about 54 or 55-years-old.

he had all of the skills. but he couldn't afford not to have a job to go back to school so they would have this on-the-job training program and it works. it's not a panacea but it makes a difference in all of you because you have to walk out of your offices through the capital out through the door and people see you every day you don't get in the car and go taken through a gate. one thing i never worry about anymore i used to be worried about traffic congestion but there is none in america. i don't know what happened. you've talked to ordinary people, you walk outside. you see them. what do they talk about? this is one person and one job at a time, one opportunity at a time. and many more of you have successful programs in if i had

an opportunity to go through them all because i know where i've been quite frankly you've been really cooperative in this outfit to give us all your best ideas of what's working in your state and what things are not working in your state but that's why we have invested nearly $2 billion in partnerships between businesses, community college and the result is real. the certificate degree programs designed by the employers who will hire the students when they complete them. that's why you we invested $100 million in the competitive grant program to bite the h1b visa program where silicon valley and other firms said they can't find enough coal fired employeecola fiveemployees in ts and the other certificate brings folks over. it's the h1b program. was there a way to increase the apprenticeships and they pay a fee for that as well so that's how a lot of this gets paid for

two expand such as information technology. of the largest companies in the world cisco, everyone was there. i asked i said right now there are -- you will remember this in the senate we have to vote on the visa. there are 550,000 this year or it's been over 480 to 580,000 per year. they don't have the jobs in the high-tech industry and there is a whole thing they have to go through to prove that

nonetheless, 555,000 h. one b. visa holders this year. so i asked this group of the 20 leading high-tech firms in the world. how many of those jobs can be filled by americans with a two-year degree high community college degree? the answer was 200,000 per year. what are we doing? 200,000 a year. i met with these folks and they are helping me put together a program. they are helping to train and encourage more individuals to become computer programs. you are talking 85, $90,000 a year. a two-year degree. imagine if we could train 200,000 programmers who qualify

for these jobs. the average salary is 87,000. almost 90,000. so here's what this outfit has done. they are helping k-12 kids tea teach. they help schools create and expand computer science curriculum. last year 15,000 classrooms in america began teaching the curriculum. they also encourage all of you in the states into some of you have already done it to a lower your schools and talk to the local school districts to allow two counts the classes as part of high school math requirements. you realize less than 1% of high schools do that now?

for example in the past year they successfully lobbied oklahoma, illinois. i don't know how it went. arizona, new york, california, idaho all of whom have recently added computer science as a core subject receiving state funding. they are making it feel accessible. for example this year code.org encouraged americans to code for one hour on the websites 30 million americans participated. 30 million. heck of an initiative. all of you know what i know. americans want to work. they are willing to work creatively are willing to be re- trained. if they think there's any possibility of having to re- trained to be connected to a job

come help them to better themselves and their families that spend the big problem in all of our state and federally. i've talked to some of you about this. connecting the job opening. you hear these statistics 100,000 high-tech jobs. when i go out there the kids i grew up with and those that grew up with their children where are those 100,000 jobs flex do you have a list? tell me where they are. how do i get them, what skill do i need? in the free market they are required to get the jobs and the people that need the jobs. many of you have done a lot of this stuff. i met with a company called glass door.

they are collecting and sharing additional information they have the stores into stores of information. so now what they have on the website and you are looking for a particular kind of job. in the interview process and the culture of the data that is elected in a country so for example if you want a job as a software developer you can go to the glass door and let other glass door users have said about what it's like to work for her interview with that company for that job. on traditional websites you find the posting of the basic salary information. currently glass door partnered with more than 1,000 college universities to give access to the sites. they helped me put together an event at the white house that

was called the data jam and with 24 high-tech firms. some of whom have already connected with some of your departments of labor to make it clear for the jobseekers what jobs are needed, number two, where you can get the skills. number three how can you get to help pay for those skills and with those skills are and where you can use them to get a job. i sat at a table there were 24 outfits that said they had different tables set up in the white house in the oeb and i sat with a representative company that said i want to show you something. and they said i not allowed to tell you their name but it's in the hometown of delaware works at the port of wilmington and he said he's out of work. so he wanted to know where else he could get a job as a warehouse. so they pushed a button and every single warehouse job

within three hours popped up in every single warehouse job in the entire east coast popped up. they had a map showing the density of the jobs and showing that there is a lot of openings in the eastern part of the state in western pennsylvania. very few and not as many in southern delaware etc.. they also show you live in% of warehouse workers when they lose their job they don't know what they are qualified for. i've been working in the warehouse. well it turns out the same skills that require the warehouse worker qualify you to be a truck driver. so you push a button and get every single solitary truck driver opening that is in the same region. truck drivers make on average $4,000 a year more than warehouse workers. $45,000. they then say with the skill set

is, what the expense and experience is required, what the expense is to get the training that you need. they actually give the workers a physical map showing them where the company is, telephone number and a map as to how they can get the training they need for the job. they already had a career. they've now lost it and most people you know are in their 40s or 50s or lost a job. what is the first thing you hear from them? they talk to you like they do me. i don't know what to do. i've done this my whole life. i used to have a friend that was a great basketball player. i don't want to give away my age but i will. he went to providence college when they had all americans in all-pro and the nameless pete

maclachlan. died of throat cancer, good friend of mine. he would say to himself he wasn't the sharpest on the table but he was a smart guy and he used to have an expression. he would say you have to know how to know. let me say it again. you've got to know how to know. those of you that went to law school what i but is the first g you have to learn? you have to learn how to access the information that you need. it's called legal procedures you spend a whole year learning. you need to know how to know. so many hard-working decent americans they don't know how to know. they don't know where to go and they are intimidated when you tell someone 51-years-ol 51-yeat has lived a middle class life you're going to go back and be re- trained. it's intimidating, but it's

there. let me end where i began. every single one of you knows and i know the way america was built was on the back of the most modern infrastructure in the world. you also know as well as i do americans want to work. america was built on the shoulders of those people. the world is changed. it's more complicated. it's more global. the skills required to succeed our sophisticated but our population is thoroughly capable and requires the skills and thriving in this new world. every one of you know the american people are tough. they are determined. they want to work. the american people have -- this is a reality. they have never, never, never let america down to giving have a chance. ordinary people never -- we have

to give them a chance. and in the process of giving them a chance, we do everything from lower our deficit to increase our productivity to enhance our place in the world, but to have to know where the jobs are and what training they need and how to get the training that our responsibility. our responsibility to do both of these things, to break through the gridlock in washington and rebuild america and breakthrough the complications that tens of americans still face in terms of how to advance their career. i think if we do both of these things there are things we have to do. ladies and gentlemen the american people are ready to

work. throughout the history when given a fair shot, they have never, ever let the country down. i will conclude by telling you that when i was in china after we had been downgraded because of that ridiculous showdown in the last administration between democrats and republicans and the rating was downgraded and i got to -- i was in china two days later. actually that's not true, four days later for a five-day trip. and then the president hu welcomed me in the great hall of the people. there were a thousand people in there and more press than i have seen because they were grateful. we have been downgraded and the prospects look a great deal better by comparison. >> the president was very

gracious and he said through the contemporaneous translation we have faith in you. we know you will come back and they went through the whole thing about what you have to deal with and he listed our problems and i said thank you mr. vice president so much. i said i've noticed i've read that you are getting a lot of criticism for buying millions of dollars worth of the u.s. treasury bills two or three days after we were downgraded. i said if i were you and my international staff nearly die i said if i were you i wouldn't buy any more u.s. treasury bil bills. we don't need you to do that. it's true you 02% of the financial instruments. that's true. that 86% are owned by the american people. there's never been a default on the data so i know what is causing you some political

difficulty so i wouldn't buy any more. it's okay. i then set by the way we do have a problem with our what we refer to as the entitlement system you call it and we call it social security and medicare and medicaid. we do have a problem but ours is a political problem lacking political will. but i said my god mr. president, if you need help i don't know what you are going to do with your one child policy creating the disaster that has occurred. by 202 2025 people have 2025 yoe working to take care of all of the people retired. if we can help in any way, we will. you may remember i came back and predicted a change on the one child policy. one year later they did. my generic point is to take

advantage of this opportunity. take advantage of the opportunity for the united states to lay down a new marker for the 21st century. we have the greatest research university in the world. we have the most incredible system for allocating capital in the world. we have more venture capitalists ready to go in any place in the world. we have a greater -- it goes on and on. so what i am pleading with you to do is to continue to teach us a lesson by getting along with one another. continue to do the practical things that you are doing to demonstrate the use two issues are not partisan issues. they used to be a national consensus on both of them. the sooner that we reestablish

that consensus, the faster we are going to grow and create real jobs and we are going to continue to lead the world in large part because of all of y you. [applause] i'm not hanging around for applause. i'm supposed to take questions. i'm sorry. >> we appreciate your time and we know you have a very busy schedule. we are going to take a couple of questions.

we look forward to having that sign but how would that legislation affect the current work on the training programs. the bottom line is that will enhance it. it's the bare minimum because we should measure objectively whether the program is working. it should be applied to everything in my view. those of you that work with me in the act the first time we did that is when we had less than one and a half% of waste, fraud and abuse according to the outside groups so there should be an objective matter to be the measure whether these programs are worthwhile. by example, back in the 70s when the shipping industry began to leave the united states, my state of delaware and the state of pennsylvania boarded one another obviously, and there is

a building corporation major corporation right down the delaware pennsylvania border along the delaware river and it went belly up and consolidated left and lost their jobs so we had a job training programs. program. we trained 14,000 cooks. nobody needed any cooks. it was a job training program but it was almost a makework program and so as the reform secretary governor o'malley out of secretary of labor says we have to not train and hope we have to train and place. so one of the additional things that we have to do our make sure that we are able to connect the actual business openings that are there with the people who want t jobs and then figure outf they don't have the skills how we can get them the skills that

meet the needs of those employers. this bill doesn't -- that bill doesn't do that. it does some of that. but i could go on for longer but i've already gone on for too long area that's why in the budget we have left over of the 5 billion this year, 2 billion to increase the number of apprenticeship programs for something that is being done well in south carolina and is being done well in a lot of your state. to figure out and encourage the best outfits in your states that are really willing, ready and able to get into the business of hiring people in a lot of them are. they have the capacity for

training the workforce needed to fobefore the jobs require new skills just because of the globalization and modernization. by the way it will not be one of those, those that know me and do like governor nixon, there is no pride of authorship. i'm hoping that you all are going to say i like that part or i don't like that part. this will be the comprehensive look quite friendly ever and we will see we will be able to do that. mr. vice president, those as you may well know that states use workforce programs to not only attract to help our existing businesses grow. but for that to be really successful they have to be able to work with those businesses

and be responsive to them. how could the job workforce programs be doing and serving in and listening and responding to the businesses how can the governor's help worked better? they don't know how to listen. whether it is the community colleges or the colleges or the training programs. that is the basic blocking but it's hard. i don't want to keep talking about my buddy in vermont, but the high-tech nonprofit up there with other companies in a very precise way. they have all of the needs and companies not only in vermont, but in the area then they went

out and they looked at all of the total unemployment in the state they tried to match the skills and started putting people back together. when you are a state like mine you are the only state by the way before you pick on little delaware, five of you all are smaller than we are. [laughter] we are looking to use, the 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 don't they go and train them? either member when dupont bought conoco. dupont needed a number of people especially that didn't 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 i've asked the staff to correct me, ed 9% result in a programming job in the studies we've done. they had that job a year later but it's 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 aren't looking for an apprentice for the 22,000-dollar a year job. and so it is the best bang for the buck but it's about bringing together we can give you a lot of detail on this program and it's going to be you all that make it work, not us. if it works and suits the need. you haven't smiled the whole time. [laughter] i'm getting worried. [laughter] anyway. it's going to work like all these programs you make them work and we will give you the detail. also i think what's going to help and it's presumptuous of me to say this because we are not

doing it, i'm just -- luck the federal government doesn't do a lot of things really well and there are things they can do better in the states, but i'm 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 you're going to find remarkable is these medium-sized tech firms who are coming up because there is a market. there's 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. here's the phone number. here's the requirement. here's the application. if you can't 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. here's the outfit you can go get help in the training program etc.. it's going to change but it's not coming from us. it's 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. we've 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 there's 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 don't 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 they've 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 fast-track 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 it's a -- you know, we start off there's almost a sense that since we don't 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.

it's 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 there's about a half a billion dollars there to be of assistance. >> [inaudible] >> good. i hope having a democratic vice president doesn't hurt your reputation.

>> not at all mr. vice president. i'm going to hand over to the rehabilitation your shout out because i know that's made their day and that is a wonderful program that has made a difference in people's lives and in nevada. my question you've touched upon and it's similar to the governors, i would like to know how we can work with you in terms of improving and aligning the k-12 education and higher education so that our kids and students have pathways to a career opportunity and that high school graduation isn't 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, it's 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 high-tech 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 doesn't make film any more and they are

not a thing of the past, but i think if i'm not mistaken -- there's closer to 10,000 employees today. and it is a load out of town. it was a very prosperous middle-class 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 don't want my kids having any of those jobs. i don't 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 that's gone in the past. my uncle did such and such and i don't want my kid working in that environment. they have the meetings and say let me explain. let me explain what's 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 on-the-job 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 it's 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 don't want my kids to be a computer programmer i don't want them doing that. they say well it's $86,000 a year and guess what you may end up running. i didn't know that many of them lost their jobs. the jobs we are talking about now don't 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 that's been your experience. it's been mine in the place i've 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 he's 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 there's 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. you've already trespass on it too much. let me put it this way, 15 years from now. colleges are not going to be four years won't. 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 can't 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 i'm joking i'm 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 there's 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 don't 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.

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>> let's give the vice president a great thank you.

[applause] >> going to move on to our committee meetings. they will be starting at 3:00 and running a few minutes late. our committee on economic development and commerce and also at the same time education and work force committee and later on tonight 8:00 p.m. we ve wonderful entertainment .ith vince gill and amy grant >> oklahoma governor marry fallin and released her final report as the chair of the national governors association. is a year-long initiative called "america works" and talks about work force training programs matching the education and training with the needs of businesses. all of that in her report for this year and find it joven line. we are live in nashville,

tennessee. this is the closing session talking about jobs and the economy and will be hearing from the guest speaker, president and c.e.o. of best buy and chair and vice chair, governor fallin. yesterday we heard sessions on helping veterans find jobs as well as education and the work force and health care. find it online on cspan.org. >> we will take a look back at yesterday. helping veterans find jobs in the workforce. >> thousands of men and women who served in uniform have left military service is overseas coming to a conclusion. as service members return to their communities, civilian lives faced unique challenges to reintegrate into society.