[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 80 (Wednesday, June 22, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: June 22, 1994]
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PAPERWORK ESCALATION WITH EMPLOYER MANDATES IS FURTHER THREAT TO SMALL 
                                BUSINESS

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, many bureaucrats and politicians in 
Washington, who have never owned or operated a small business or even 
held a private sector job, believe the simplest way to pay for their 
new health care bureaucracy is to make businesses pay for it.
  Ideas that appear simple do not always translate into simple 
programs.
  This is especially true in the case of employer mandates and health 
care reform. These mandates will hang many businesses not only because 
they will drive many businesses under, but also because employers would 
have new, far-reaching, federally mandated record keeping and reporting 
requirements.
  Worst of all, this paperwork increase will cost American business 
billions of dollars each year, forcing them to lay off workers.
  If this Congress, at the request of the President includes employer 
mandates in health care reform legislation, it may as well slip the 
noose around the neck of small business and kick the chair out from 
under them, because the paperwork increase will kill them anyway.

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