[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 58 (Thursday, April 22, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2823]
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                 UNCERTAINTY IMPACTING SMALL BUSINESSES

  (Mr. NEUGEBAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NEUGEBAUER. Mr. Speaker, I've spent a number of weeks back in my 
district, the 19th Congressional District of Texas, talking to small 
businesses all throughout the district about the economy and about 
jobs, which is on the minds of the American people, and particularly 
the people in the 19th Congressional District.
  Many of them said, Congressman, we would be spending money, we would 
be expanding our business, but Congress is creating such an uncertainty 
that we don't know what to do. They're still trying to figure out how 
this health care bill is going to impact them. They're still trying to 
figure out if this Congress is going to pass a cap-and-trade bill that 
will increase the cost of energy. They hear Congress talking about all 
kinds of taxes, VAT taxes, gasoline taxes.
  And now they see Congress is spending and borrowing money it doesn't 
have, running up these record deficits. And they said, Congressman, 
we're just uncertain about what the future is in this country.
  In fact, when I go around to clubs and meetings, I ask people in the 
audience to raise their hand if they are living out a better life than 
their parents. Everybody's hand raises. But when I ask them how many 
people think, based upon the course we are on today, that their 
children and grandchildren will live a better day, the hands are 
brought down.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to get back to the basics here, cut spending, 
cut taxes, and get the American people back to work.

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