[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 178 (Wednesday, December 9, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H9084]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       OBAMACARE IS COSTING JOBS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
Tennessee (Mrs. Black) for 5 minutes.
  Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Speaker, just this past week the nonpartisan 
Congressional Budget Office confirmed again what we already knew: 
ObamaCare is costing jobs. Yes, 2 million of them over the next 10 
years, to be exact.
  But those aren't just numbers. Represented within this study are real 
people whose lives and livelihoods are being upended by a Government-
knows-best law that, more than 5 years later, still remains underwater 
with the American public.
  We saw a real-life picture of the damage of ObamaCare in my home 
State of Tennessee when a Music City institution, the Noshville Deli, 
announced this week that it would close its doors after 19 years 
because of the onerous mandates and high cost of this law.
  The restaurant's owner, Tom Loventhal, said this: The administrative 
time and cost of managing a mandated healthcare insurance in the 
restaurant industry create an untenable burden, and that's before the 
cost of premiums.
  He goes on to say: I've spent many hours, including some sleepless 
nights, trying to find a solution, but I can't find one.
  Mr. Speaker, the Noshville Deli is one of a kind, but, sadly, its 
story is not. It is being repeated across the country every single day.
  While I continue to believe that the only real solution to the damage 
of ObamaCare is to repeal this law, root and branch, I am pleased that 
the House and the Senate have passed a reconciliation bill combating 
the most onerous portions of this law.
  When we put this bill on the President's desk, I hope he will think 
of the real people, like Tom and the employees there at the restaurant, 
who are being hurt by ObamaCare.

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  The next time that my colleagues across the aisle want to call 
ObamaCare a jobs bill, as Leader Pelosi infamously said, I would invite 
them to come to the Noshville Deli, where they can get a good meal and 
a healthy dose of reality. But they had better do it quickly because, 
thanks to their votes, time for this beloved Nashville icon is running 
out.

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