[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 161 (Tuesday, October 25, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H7022]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR WITHHOLDING REPEAL ACT

  (Mr. YODER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. YODER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today again in support of small 
business owners and builders all across the United States who will be 
harmed by a new tax withholding requirement by the Federal Government.
  With unemployment at 9.1 percent and holding, we desperately need to 
come together to do all that we can to get our economy growing. But our 
economic recovery will not come from government growth. It will come 
from entrepreneurs, innovators, and small business owners who take 
risk, expand, hire new workers and create economic growth the old-
fashioned way--in the private sector through hard work and free 
enterprise.
  The imposition of a 3 percent withholding tax increase is the cost of 
doing business for our small business owners and therefore hurts job 
growth and the economic recovery. We cannot create jobs while punishing 
job creators. I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 674, legislation 
that will remove this burdensome new tax requirement on our small 
businesses.
  Mr. Speaker, we must come together as a Congress and do all that we 
can to promote legislation like this that will remove barriers to 
economic growth and get America back to work again.

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