[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 73 (Monday, June 13, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 13, 1994]
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                       STRANGLING SMALL BUSINESS

  (Ms. DUNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DUNN. Mr. Speaker, imagine a pair of giant hands around your 
throat. Now imagine those hands slowly but surely starting to squeeze, 
constricting your air passages and impairing your ability to breathe.
  Not a pretty picture, is it?
  Well, this is how small businesses feel about the President's 
employer mandates in health care reform: The Government's big hands 
choking the life out of our small business sector.
  Mr. Speaker, there is a better way to health care reform.
  Rather than kill millions of jobs, let us simply fix the problems of 
our current system. Rather than giving Government a death grip on our 
small businesses, let's simply make adjustments that will provide 
universal access, allow portability, and prohibit preexisting 
conditions.
  Mr. Speaker, the President's employer mandates will strangle many 
small businesses. I urge my colleagues to break the grip and oppose 
employer mandates.

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