[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10944]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     REPEALING THE EMPLOYEE MANDATE

  (Mrs. CAPITO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. Speaker, in May, I came to the floor to highlight 
the concerns that small businesses in my State have with the looming 
implementation of ObamaCare. I spoke about a daycare center that had 73 
employees and that had been in business for 24 years. It had been 
struggling mightily with the uncertainty on how to meet the employer 
mandate.
  Last week, the administration announced that they will postpone the 
job-killing employer mandate until 2015. They admitted that after 3 
years of bureaucratic work that the fatally flawed employer mandate is 
unworkable.
  While the President's announcement is welcome news for small 
businesses in the short term, it signals just how problematic ObamaCare 
will be to implement. The employer mandate was forcing businesses, like 
the daycare center in my district, to lay off workers, to cut employee 
hours, and to potentially close their doors depending on their 
financial statuses.
  Businesses don't need a temporary reprieve to ObamaCare. They need a 
permanent one. A recent poll found that, as a result of ObamaCare, 41 
percent of businesses have put off hiring and 19 percent have reduced 
the number of employees in their businesses.
  Pushing off one of ObamaCare's worst provisions for a year will do 
nothing but prolong the pain and increase the uncertainty. Instead, we 
should repeal and have a workable bill with patient-centered reforms 
that will improve the affordability, access, and quality of medical 
care.

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