[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8183]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   WHITE HOUSE STANDING IN THE WAY OF GROWING ECONOMY AND ADDING JOBS

  (Mr. ROTHFUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROTHFUS. Mr. Speaker, the scandals embroiling the White House are 
the result of a culture of contempt for the law that we have seen since 
the beginning of the Obama administration.
  Over the past 4 years, President Obama has demonstrated that 
dedication to ideology and politics to the exclusion of the rule of law 
and effectively working to get this economy booming again. Because of 
this administration's agenda-driven Big Government policies, it is now 
more difficult for companies in western Pennsylvania to grow and hire 
additional staff. ObamaCare is raising costs, has discouraged hiring, 
and threatens access to quality health care. Regulations strangling the 
financial sector are limiting opportunities for small businesses to add 
jobs. And just last week, we learned that 134 hardworking employees of 
a coal company in western Pennsylvania were laid off. They can thank 
President Obama and his war on coal for altering the market for one of 
America's most valuable and abundant resources.
  President Obama and his administration need to stop their failed Big 
Government policies, and instead, we need to do all we can to get jobs 
back to the American people around the Nation.

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