On the recordJuly 30, 2010
I agree, there is a serious flaw in this health care bill. This is one of many, and this serious flaw is a job-killer. So I commend the majority for their recognition of these serious flaws in the health care bill and that there are job-killing provisions in it that many of us warned them about before the bill came to the floor but weren't really allowed to be part of the process to try to correct those before they came. And, frankly, not many people here were able to do that either, as it was just rolled out. But the answer isn't to hurt other job providers. We're in a recession. Unemployment isn't getting better. We know the stimulus didn't work. We're still at a national rate of about 10 percent. But let's look at what job providers say about the way that they pay for this fix. The fix we're for--and we had a legitimate way to do it, as I said, without raising taxes, without hurting other job providers, and by actually helping to prevent the potentially fraudulent way this provision was drafted. And let me just tell you what an association of employers that promotes America's Competitive Edge Group said. They represent more than 63 million American jobs, and they say the $12 billion imposed in the proposed international tax increases would further disadvantage U.S. companies, harming their competitiveness.
