[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11725]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      SMALL BUSINESS AND OBAMACARE

  (Mr. HOLDING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOLDING. Mr. Speaker, at a time when just under 60 percent of 
working-age Americans are employed, wherever there is potential for job 
growth we should seize the opportunity, and, clearly, small businesses 
provide opportunity. Although our economy has fluctuated and wavered 
over the last 15 years, in that time, small businesses have created 64 
percent of net new jobs.
  Mr. Speaker, just 8 percent of the President's Cabinet members worked 
in the private business sector prior to their appointments. This 
Cabinet has less business experience than the previous 19 Cabinets. It 
is no wonder this administration did not clearly recognize the harmful 
effects that ObamaCare would have on small business.
  We should be helping small businesses by reforming our burdensome Tax 
Code and by curbing back excessive regulation. That is why, yesterday, 
the House passed the delay of the employer and individual mandates, but 
we must permanently repeal ObamaCare. The future of small businesses 
and families depends on it.

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