Monday, April 14, 2014YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- U.S. Sen. Rob Portman will visit the city today, where he will tour City Machine Technologies and host a roundtable discussion on workforce training at Choffin Career & Technical Center.
At City Machine, which he will tour midday, Portman, R-Ohio, will host an employee town hall meeting. Later he will join Tom Humphries, president and CEO of the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber, and local business, education and community leaders at Choffin, which he will also tour.
“I’m looking forward to meeting with local Youngstown business and industry leaders and workers to discuss issues affecting their businesses and the Youngstown community,” Portman said in a media advisory announcing the Choffin visit.
Portman authored the Career Act, which aims to make federal job-training programs more responsive to the needs of the 21st century job market. He is co-chairman of the Senate Career and Technical Education Caucus.
In a separate advisory announcing the City Machine visit, Portman said he looked forward to meeting with manufacturers here and touching base with individuals who found work through the energy jobs fair he hosted last year.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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