[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18501]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          JOBS WILL BE LOST AS A RESULT OF HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. CRENSHAW asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Speaker, it's pretty clear that we've lost a lot of 
jobs in this country, and I think it's pretty clear that we are going 
to lose a whole lot more jobs if we pass this health care plan.
  I thought Members might want to just hear a firsthand personal 
example. I've got a longtime friend that lives in Florida. He has a 
small business. By the way, he voted for Obama this year. He said, I'm 
going to vote for Barack Obama, even though I'm a Republican, because 
we need some change in this country.
  I saw him this weekend. He said, hey, have you seen that Obama health 
care plan? I said, yeah, as a matter of fact, I have. A lot of people 
have seen it. He said, man, that's not the change that I was voting 
for. He said, that's going to kill my business. He said, I'm going to 
see my taxes go up. He said, we're already laying off people, but if 
they put that penalty on us that I read about, then I'm going to have 
to lay some more people off. He said, this is killing me.
  And I'll tell you, that's happening all over the country, not just in 
Orlando, Florida, but all around the country. So we need some reform, 
but we need the right kind of reform, and this is not it.

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