[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 9, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1179]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                ENTREPRENEURS WILL BE HARMED BY PRO ACT

  (Mr. OBERNOLTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. OBERNOLTE. Mr. Speaker, I fear that H.R. 842 is going to have 
serious long-term consequences for entrepreneurialism here in America.
  Mr. Speaker, I started a company 30 years ago out of my college dorm 
room at Caltech, and I grew it the way that most small businesses are 
grown in America. I grew it organically. That means that when I had a 
little bit more business than I, myself, could do, I contracted that 
business out to other people who could do that business for me.
  Mr. Speaker, under this bill, that practice will be illegal because 
it violates the so-called B pillar of the bill that prohibits any 
contracting that is related to the core business that a company 
engages.
  Mr. Speaker, if H.R. 842 had been the law of the land, I would not 
have been able to start my company, and the hundreds of jobs that we 
have created would not have been created here. But they will be created 
elsewhere, in other countries, with more sane and less restrictive 
laws.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote on H.R. 842.

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