[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11740]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       RX FOR AMERICAN COMPANIES

  (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Madam Speaker, American businesses are faced 
with increasing pressure from foreign competitors and skyrocketing 
health care costs. But they are also faced with the weight placed on 
them not by the marketplace or their competitors, but by the government 
itself. Burdensome, duplicative, and outdated regulations cost American 
businesses literally billions of dollars annually and stifle new job 
creation.
  Many of these regulations do little to improve workplace safety, 
protect our environment or improve the safety of our workers, but are 
simply on the books because no one has bothered to review their 
effectiveness.
  Common sense by the government must come into play to help relieve 
this burden and to improve the environment for job creation. We must do 
more to make American companies more competitive in the global 
marketplace and to give our job providers and our workers much needed 
relief. We must and we will do more.

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