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On the recordApril 4, 2011
Thank you, Dr. Gingrey. Dr. Gingrey, I have taken a history and physical of ObamaCare. I have looked at all the laboratory results, I have looked at all the X-ray results, and I have got a diagnosis: ObamaCare is a destroyer. It's going to destroy jobs in America. In fact, already, it has destroyed jobs. I have got a lady in my district that right now today has eight people in her employment. She desperately wants to expand her business, she would like to hire at least one or two people for her small business, but she is not going to do it because of the onerous effect of ObamaCare on her business. {time} 1930 So it is destroying at least one or two jobs in that one lady's business. I have got another businessman in my district that wants to make a $31 million expansion of his business. He has the cash in the bank. He doesn't even have to borrow it with all the regulations and all the problems that we are facing with the financial problems that the Dodd-Frank bill has placed on banks as well as small businesses. He wants to make a $31 million expansion of his business. But he is not going to do it because of ObamaCare and because of the increased taxes and also the increased burden that this is going to place on him. That is killing hundreds of jobs just in two businesses within my district. So it's going to destroy jobs. But it's also going to destroy budgets. It expands Medicaid.…
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Paul Broun
Republican · Georgia
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Apr 4, 2011

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