House Breaks With Bush Administration On Key Features of Job-Training Measure

WASHINGTON--House lawmakers who have resumed their efforts to amend the Job Training Partnership Act are retaining many of the themes that appeared in last year's legislation, but have broken from some key areas of earlier agreement with the Bush Administration.

The leading House bill, HR 3033, would create a new year-round youth-training program under the J.T.P.A., while preserving current adult and summer-youth programs. That was what was called for in last year's measure, which failed to reach a conference committee before lawmakers adjourned.

But, in a markup session in late July, members of the House Employment Opportunities Subcommittee backed off from Administration-supported provisions that would attempt to target more narrowly the program, which currently serves a small fraction of eligible participants, on those with educational,...