[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12205]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. COTTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COTTON. Mr. Speaker, more than 100,000 Arkansans work in retail, 
restaurant, lodging, and other service sectors. These service 
industries have helped keep the American economy afloat in recent 
years.
  From restaurants like U.S. Cafe in Dardanelle, where I flipped 
burgers and fried fish as a teenager, to the convention hotels in Hot 
Springs, Arkansans rely on service industries every day as both 
employees and customers.
  Unfortunately, the Obama administration's many failed policies are 
imperiling our service sector. Nowhere is this more true than with 
ObamaCare. Service-oriented companies often have large and shifting 
workforces, they operate on extremely thin margins, and they cannot 
thrive on uncertainty. ObamaCare brings nothing but uncertainty.
  The House took an important step last week by voting to delay both 
the employer and the individual mandates in ObamaCare, but the only 
real solution is to repeal this awful law. Otherwise, service-sector 
employees and businesses will suffer continued setbacks, which means 
our economy will suffer yet another blow.

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