[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12851]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THERE IS A BETTER WAY

  (Mr. TIPTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIPTON. Mr. Speaker, the President is giving speeches on his plan 
for economic growth. His economic plan is to grow government, regulate 
more, spend more, and tax more. His speeches will not create jobs.
  The economy does not improve when the administration piles on tens of 
thousands of pages of costly new regulations. Families don't thrive 
when the only jobs they can find are part-time because of ObamaCare's 
onerous mandates forcing employers to cut back on hours in order to be 
able to keep their doors open.
  This administration's oppressive regulations cost small businesses, 
on average, $10,585 per employee. To create jobs and jump-start the 
economy, we must pull back on unnecessary punitive regulations, hold 
the bureaucracy accountable, and shrink the size of government and 
reward, rather than punish, success.
  This week we are voting to be able to stop government overreach, 
stand up for the American people, and give them a fighting chance to be 
able to succeed, to have access to fair and affordable and effective 
health care systems, not to have to worry about the Federal Government 
increasing burdens on their lives, abusing power, and stunting economic 
growth and putting their jobs at risk.
  The American people need this response.

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