[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9809]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 PROTECT MEDICAL INNOVATION ACT OF 2015

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, I am rising today in support of H.R. 
160, the Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2015. What this will do is 
repeal the device tax.
  Now, the device tax, the medical device tax, was a misplaced and 
disastrous tax that was put in as an ObamaCare mandate. What it will do 
is tax the medical device industry and those who utilize those 
components.
  This is an industry that doesn't need to be taxed. It employs more 
than 400,000 workers nationwide and generates $25 billion in payroll. 
In my State of Tennessee, there are 10,000 individuals who work in this 
industry, and the Manhattan Institute estimates that unless we repeal 
this tax and get it off the books now, we will lose 1,000 of those 
jobs. That is a 10 percent reduction in a component, a part of the 
economy that generates good paying jobs, 40 percent higher than other 
manufacturing jobs.
  I ask my colleagues to join me. Let's repeal the medical device tax.

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