[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19560-19561]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               TIME FOR WASHINGTON TO GET OUT OF THE WAY

  (Mr. DENT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DENT. Mr. Speaker, the issue this week is health care and jobs, 
jobs, jobs. You know, a friend of mine who employs many people in my 
district, and he also provides very good health benefits, said to me 
recently that the policy proposals coming out of Washington are 
impeding job creation and scaring people. He's right. And there are 
five issues that are driving his concern:
  First, a stimulus bill that spends too much, borrows too much and 
delivers

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too few jobs; two, a budget that doubles the national debt in 5 years 
and triples it in 10 years; three, a card check bill that is 
undemocratic and imposes binding arbitration which will increase health 
care and other costs; four, a national energy tax cap-and-trade that 
will cost 66,000 jobs in Pennsylvania and jacked-up electric bills, 
natural gas bills, and prices at the gasoline pump for consumers; and, 
five, now a House health care bill with enormous tax increases and 
mandates on all businesses and businesses of all sizes.
  Enough is enough. Time to let Washington get out of the way and let 
job creators do what they do best: create jobs.

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