Todd Tiahrt: “In summary, Mr. Speaker, we have over the last generation watched Congress continually raise barriers for us to keep and…”

“In summary, Mr. Speaker, we have over the last generation watched Congress continually raise barriers for us to keep and create jobs in America. We have found out by investigating this that we could develop these problems into eight categories, eight issues that we are going to deal with. The problem is not Benedict Arnold CEOs. They only have a couple of costs they can control, and that is wages and overhead. And the problem is not the wages, because most of them want to have high-quality employees they want to pay high wages to. They want to attract the best and the brightest. The problem is not overhead. We found out it costs the same to build a building in India, in the Philippines, or in America. It is Congress. The problem is in Congress and what we have done over the last generation to continually put barriers in the way for people to keep and create jobs. We have started with these eight issues. We are starting this week with health care security.”