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Strengthening
America’s
Energy
Independence
On
Wednesday,
I
introduced
a
bill
that
would
serve
five
very
important
purposes:
create
jobs,
strengthen
America’s
energy
independence,
encourage
STEM
education,
offer
veterans
job
training,
and
help
lower
energy
prices
for
low-income
families.
The
SEA
Jobs
Act,
or
Southern
Energy
Access
Jobs
Act,
would
pave
the
way
for
responsible
offshore
energy
production,
as
well
as
providing
access
to
job
training
for
veterans,
creating
partnerships
for
STEM
education
between
industry,
state
universities,
and
HBCU’s,
and
dedicating
10%
of
all
new
federal
revenues
to
paying
down
our
deficit.
We
have
seen
how
control
of
energy
production
can
affect
national
security
with
the
situation
in
Ukraine.
For
too
long,
we
have
been
dangerously
reliant
on
other
countries
for
our
energy
needs—it’s
time
to
start
developing
the
resources
we
have
right
here
at
home.
Read
more
about
the
SEA
Jobs
Act here.
Restoring
the
40-Hour
Workweek
This
week,
I
introduced
an
amendment
that
will
restore
the
40-hour
workweek.
The
Obamacare
employer
mandate
currently
requires
employers
to
provide
health
insurance
to
full-time
employees
and
makes
the
new
definition
of
a
“full-time”
employee
as
one
working
30
hours
per
work
week.
As
a
result,
many
employers
are
cutting
hours
for employees
to
fewer
than
30
hours
per
week—effectively
cutting
their
pay
by
25%.
For
families
who
are
already
working
hard
to
make
ends
meet,
this
can
be
devastating.
For
this
reason,
my
amendment
will
restore
the
definition
of
a
full
week’s
work
to
40
hours,
and
help
get
people
back
into
full
time
jobs.
Strengthening
Our
Federal
Workforce
Training
Right
now
in
America,
4
million
jobs
are
sitting
empty—65,000
of
them
just
in
South
Carolina.
I
introduced
my
SKILLS
Act
as
an
amendment
earlier
this
week
in
order
to
modernize
and
cut
bureaucratic
waste
out
of
the
federal
government’s
maze
of
35
overlapping
workforce
training
programs.
We
need
to
make
sure
Americans
are
prepared
for
continued
success
in
the
workforce,
and
that
starts
with
education
and
workforce
training.
Watch
me
discuss
my
two
amendments
on
the
Senate
floor
below,
and
read
more
about
them here.
(Click
HERE
to
watch)
Please
join
me
in
keeping
the
victims
and
their
families
of
the
Fort
Hood
tragedy
in
our
thoughts
and
prayers
during
this
difficult
time,
and
pray
that
they
begin
to
find
peace.
Sincerely,
Tim