Honorable John Tierney
United States Representative, Massachusetts, Democrat
Representative Tierney, of the Sixth District of Massachusetts, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. He was a practicing attorney from 1976 to 1996. He sits on the Committee on Education and the Workforce and on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, where he is the Ranking Minority Member of the Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense, and Foreign Operations. The following is from the March 15, 2013, House floor debate on H.R. 803, the Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act. We could have had a bipartisan bill, and that seems to…
