[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 154 (Friday, October 14, 2011)]
[House]
[Pages H6924-H6925]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     ILLINOIS FOURTEENTH DISTRICT VOTERS SAY REGULATIONS HURT JOBS

  (Mr. HULTGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HULTGREN. Mr. Speaker, I recently asked my constituents to take a

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quick email survey regarding regulations and the impact that it has on 
jobs and our economy. The response from the 14th Congressional District 
of Illinois was overwhelming: 68 percent said that businesses currently 
operate in a hostile business environment when it comes to regulation; 
70 percent said that the regulators and bureaucrats should be required 
to consider the impact regulations have on jobs and businesses before 
they're imposed.
  To my constituents, I say, we are listening. We're working hard to 
ensure that small businesses and job creators have a stable and certain 
regulatory environment. We're working hard to get Washington off their 
backs; and we're working hard to ensure that they feel confident 
expanding and hiring, putting Americans back to work and getting our 
economy moving again. That's why all this fall we have been tackling 
and cutting red tape from the EPA and other bureaucracies.
  Without our action, EPA threatens to impose new rules that would 
devastate American jobs, raise the cost of electricity for homeowners 
and businesses, and drive American businesses out of existence and 
overseas. That's unacceptable.

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