WATCH: Rep. Jim Renacci Talks Fracking, Employment at Kent Stark

Stark County community members got to hear 's thoughts on subjects from fracking to employment when he spoke Tuesday at the .

The annual event is hosted by the Stark County Chambers Association at .

We've published some highlights in the accompanying videos, but here's what Renacci had to say about employment and job training:

"We've actually had four bills that have been in to Congress jointly," Renacci said. "One of them was the Employee Act. It was an idea where you take unemployment insurance and redirect it toward training. I might have mentioned this to many of you over this past year: It was frustrating to me because as a business owner I felt like we were spending all this money on unemployment; let's figure out a way to redirect it to job training.

"And if we redirect it to job training maybe we can redirect it to employment and get people working again. And so this Employee Act got on the floor and basically takes unemployment dollars and uses them, if a business hires somebody and puts them on their payroll and trains them, they can get those unemployment dollars directly to the business."