[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26546]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (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, I have reviewed this bill, and it 
is a jobs killer.
  Before I came to Congress, I was a small business person. I know what 
is to start small businesses and to run them, and I know how difficult 
it is to sustain those jobs.
  This Congress, the Democrat majority, rather than trying to find ways 
to help the people who are struggling with unemployment right now and 
to help small businesses create jobs, is finding a way to hinder them 
by penalizing employers who can't afford to provide health insurance 
for their employees.
  If we want to make sure they have access to health insurance, let's 
find ways to allow association health plans, to allow people to buy 
health insurance across State lines to get costs down, to pass tort 
reform, and do other meaningful things that make access more 
practicable.
  But first and foremost, let's don't kill jobs in an economy that's 
already struggling with 10 percent unemployment. And that's what this 
bill does.
  It's time for this Congress to get out of the way, to stop job-
killing and start trying to help small businesses create new jobs.

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