[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 48 (Thursday, April 28, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 28, 1994]
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    AMERICAN BUSINESS OPPOSES GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED EMPLOYER MANDATES

  (Mr. WALSH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Ms. WALSH. Madam Speaker, in central New York we have seen some 
10,000 well-paid manufacturing jobs evaporate over the past 5 years. I 
am concerned about the effect of the Clinton health care plan on jobs--
and so is the majority of American business according to a recent U.S. 
Chamber of Commerce survey.
  They do not want this plan. About 71 percent of the 40,000 
respondents are opposed to Government-sponsored employer mandates. 
These are the people who have seen Government mandates before. They 
have seen price controls, and they have seen the negative results.
  From 350,000 to 600,000 people will lose their jobs as a result of 
the Clinton health plan. How do I know this?
  The president's chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Laura 
D'Andrea Tyson, has said so. It is not hard to believe; in fact, some 
business people I have talked to predict higher job losses.
  The Congressional Budget Office in February put the range of expected 
job losses at 300,000 to 1.2 million.
  Why? Because history shows that when Government mandates what 
business must do, the costs are high and the effect is loss of jobs. 
This will be especially true in my home district, Madam Speaker, where 
we have major employers in the insurance and health care fields.
  Health care, yes. More taxes, more bureaucracy, more recession, more 
lost jobs? No.

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