[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3526-3527]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   SMALL BUSINESS JOB PROTECTION ACT

  (Mr. MESSER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MESSER. Mr. Speaker, the President has unilaterally delayed the 
employer mandate again. It is hard not to blame him.
  Last week, CMS reported that 11 million Americans who work at small 
businesses will have higher premiums because of the President's health 
care law. The employer mandate will make this bad situation worse.

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  That might be why the President decreed that it will only apply to 
businesses with more than 100 employees, instead of those with 50 
employees, as the law requires, at least for now.
  This is a needed temporary reprieve, but it should be granted by 
Congress, not Presidential decree.
  The President's behavior is lawless. As The Washington Post described 
it, the President has shown an ``increasingly cavalier approach to 
picking and choosing how to enforce this law.''
  I encourage our colleagues to cosponsor H.R. 2577, the Small Business 
Job Protection Act, which is my bill to permanently codify this relief. 
Let's not forget that Congress, not the President, makes the laws.

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