Jeff Denham: “Thank you for your leadership on this area. I rise in support of H.R. 527. We can't afford any more of the…”

“Thank you for your leadership on this area. I rise in support of H.R. 527. We can't afford any more of the overregulation. Regulatory burdens from new rules just this year alone have cost American taxpayers $93.2 billion. One study found that each $1 million increase in the Federal regulatory budget costs 420 jobs. Overregulation costs us jobs around the Nation. Let me just speak from my own perspective. Twelve years ago, I started Denham Plastics, something that my wife and I borrowed an incredible amount of money to start a vision that we had supporting the agriculture industry with a plastics company. It has been a tough road to hoe as a small business owner. It certainly comes at great risk to our family, but it was a vision that we had, that we believed, that without any government intervention we can succeed in not only creating new customers but new jobs. But one regulation would have put us out of business--the government- run health care. Just the 1099 provision alone, by having to report all of our customers, by having to report all of our suppliers, would have put our small business under. From an agriculture perspective--I'm a farmer in the central valley. The EPA came down with new dust control regulations. Now, we farm. We drive tractors. We till our land, and we're going to have dust. I mean, just by the sheer motion of a tractor driving through a field or plowing through the dirt--it's something that we've done through the history of our Nation--creates dust.…”