mr. garamendi's bill, my bill, mr. bill would amend the work force investment act to provide targeted investment to partnerships of community colleges, local work force investment boards and advanced manufacturing firms to design and implement education and training programs for current and prospective workers. currently, the trade adjustment assistance community college program does provide some funding for that type of thing, but unfortunately there's no assurance for investments in advanced manufacturing, and that's where we need to go in this nation. you know, what we need to do is align the training opportunities for those advanced manufacturing firms, for their needs, for adaptability and for the training of workers. an highser busch brewery in my district -- mr. garamendi: we have one of those in my district too. mr. enyart: i toured that plant a few weeks ago. and the brewery manager told me in 1999 they had 3,500 hourly employees. those were good jobs. hoes are good jobs. anybody can tell you if you work -- yo

mr. garamendi: mr. blumenauer, there's no doubt you've taken up the responsibility. you've been a leader on this issue of transportation, how we can fund it, what we must do. i was -- i guess i knew but i didn't realize it was coming so quickly that we would fall off the transportation cliff that the next fiscal year, 10 months from now, the transportation programs funded by the federal government simply run out of money. 90% or more of the funding will be gone, is that -- did i understand that correctly? mr. blumenauer: if we rely simply on current cash flow, in the next fiscal year, we will see a 92% reduction in highway funding and the transit budget will be zeroed out. and over the next 10 years, with the current revenue level, we will see a 30% reduction below the current inadequate levels. mr. garamendi: just before we came on the floor to talk about this issue of inequality in america and how we might deal with it, we heard our colleagues from the state of new york talk about the tragic transit a

mr. garamendi: i would. ms. speier: to your point this $1.2 trillion in the year 2050 is coming from all the taxpayers in this country because these are medicare patients. these are medicaid patients. and what would be really stunning is to understand that if we were able to delay the onset or progression of alzheimer's by six years, it could produce an annual savings $126 billion in 2015, billion in 2025 and whopping $444 billion, almost half a trillion dollars in the year 2050 when the costs are going to skile rocket. mr. garamendi: i'm glad you interrupted, because that is extremely important fact. 2015, the savings are how much? ms. speier: $51 billion. mr. garamendi: we are going through this budget exercise whereby the way the sequestration cut continues although the across-the-board is eliminated. half of the sequestration cut will continue because of this budget, but we will be able to try to balance out fment but the total savings in 2015 is less than the $50 billion that you suggested could be saved if