[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 25237-25238]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   FIND WAYS TO HELP SMALL BUSINESSES

  (Mr. ROGERS of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, the folks in east Alabama, as 
across most of America, are hurting right now. In my home county, we 
have 11 percent unemployment, and that's the lowest unemployment in 
that region of the State. I have several counties in my district with 
15 percent unemployment, and I have one county with 17 percent. That's 
real pain. And instead of this Congress and this administration finding 
ways to help small businesses create jobs and get these people back to 
work, they're talking about raising taxes on small businesses and 
creating government-run health insurance and mandating it on small 
businesses.
  We need to find ways to help small businesses create jobs. We need to 
offer tax credits if you'll hire new employees. We need to offer tax 
credits if you'll buy new equipment, expand your plants and create 
jobs. We need to find ways to help these small businesses provide 
health insurance by allowing association health plans, simplified 
billing, allow us to purchase health insurance across State lines and 
passing tort reform.
  It's time for us to come up with the ways to help small business 
create jobs instead of finding ways to hinder them.

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