Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

Empowering Workers to Rebuild America's Economy and Longer-Term Competitiveness: Green Skills Training for Workers

430 Dirksen
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:30:00 GMT

“This committee hearing will examine how the administration plans to help prepare workers for these jobs and what the missing policy and resource tools to support that agenda are,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chairwoman of the Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee, in a statement.

A bill introduced earlier this month by Murray and Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) would authorize grants for partnerships among two-year colleges, industry and organized labor in an effort to develop customized regional work forces.

Witnesses

Panel I
  • Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor
Panel II
  • Lee D. Lambert, President, Shoreline Community College
  • Phillip C.L. Lou, Former Student in the Shoreline Community College Solar Design and Installation Program
  • Dean Allen, Chief Executive Officer, McKinstry Company
  • Mark H. Ayers, President, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO
  • Joan Evans, Director, Wyoming Department of Workforce Services