LAS VEGAS (AP) — Audience outbursts briefly interrupted testimony Tuesday before a trio of Congress members in Las Vegas for a hearing about jobs and improving federal job training in a state saddled with the nation's highest unemployment rate.
"I support training. But I need a job!" declared Linda Overbey, 54, an unemployed union painter who became the first of a three people escorted by uniformed Las Vegas police from the otherwise polite hearing at the Opportunity Village Ralph and Betty Englestad campus.
Overbey and about a dozen union members who got up and left after the demonstration inside to set up a picket line outside, directed their ire at Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev (right).
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