[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11382-11383]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                PRESIDENT OBAMA'S POLICIES DESTROY JOBS

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, recently, President Obama 
struck another blow destroying American jobs with his new proposal to 
raise

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the salary threshold for overtime. This top-down, burdensome regulation 
will inhibit job creation, burden small businesses, and penalize hard-
working Americans.
  By increasing the wage threshold, businesses in South Carolina and 
across America will be faced with difficult choices: reducing hours for 
workers and cutting jobs. This change will hurt hard-working employees, 
who will face a lack of flexibility, limited opportunity for 
advancement within their jobs, and lower base salaries.
  The new mandate joins other harmful administration regulations, 
including mandatory wages and fixed work schedules, destroying jobs.
  The failed liberal welfare state policies of the last 50 years have 
produced increased poverty, and we should change policies to promote a 
limited government of expanded freedoms, creating jobs.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and may the President, by his 
actions, never forget September the 11th in the global war on 
terrorism.

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