[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 56 (Wednesday, April 18, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H1923]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     THE SMALL BUSINESS TAX CUT ACT

  (Mr. BROUN of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROUN of Georgia. I rise today in strong support of H.R. 9, the 
Small Business Tax Cut Act.
  In my home State of Georgia, there are more than 150,000 small 
businesses which employ over 1.5 million people. These are the folks 
that tell me every day when I come home that a tax break would allow 
them to hire more employees. Consider this: between 2005 and 2008, more 
than 130,000 new jobs were created by small businesses in Georgia. But 
under the current administration, in just 1 short year, Georgia's small 
businesses have had to let go nearly all of those jobs. That's a 
crushing 120,000 people out of work because of the Obama 
administration's policies.
  Democrats somehow think that they can solve our unemployment crisis 
by raising taxes. But job creators know that the only way that they can 
put people back to work is if they have more money to hire folks. 
That's why I support H.R. 9 and also why I introduced my JOBS Act, H.R. 
660, which would lower taxes for everybody. I urge my colleagues to 
support both bills.

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