Description: Duration: 3 minutes 6 seconds Summary The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on June 6, 2012 to address concerns about the integrity of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Jobs Reporting. An important exchange between Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Mr. John Galvin, Acting Commissioner at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on the definition of a 'green job' is provided below. REP. DARRELL ISSA: Well, let me — let me run you through some questions here because you’re here because we’re having a green jobs counting discussion. Does someone who assembles turbines — is that a green job? MS. JANE OATES: Wind turbines? REP. ISSA: Yeah. Wind turbines. MS. OATES: I think we would call any kind of sustainable manufacturing – REP. ISSA: OK. MS. OATES: — fitting the definition that was – REP. ISSA: Does someone who sweeps — does someone who sweeps the floor in a facility that makes solar panels, is tha...
"They have planted the wind and will harvest the whirlwind. The stalks of grain wither and produce nothing to eat. And even if there is grain, foreigners will eat it." - Hosea 8:7