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Virginia Foxx: Today's debate over the Save American Workers Act, which will attempt to fix another unintended consequence of…

On the recordApril 3, 2014
Today's debate over the Save American Workers Act, which will attempt to fix another unintended consequence of ObamaCare, reminded me of the recent CBO report which estimated that regulatory changes created by ObamaCare would remove the equivalent of 2.3 million Americans from the full-time workforce. Putting aside the tremendous human costs of this loss, let's simply consider the economic damage done to our Nation. Journalist Kevin Williamson compared removing 2.3 million from the full-time workforce to ``burning down 1,000 factories'' and further noted that ``that 2.3 million workers exceeds the current workforces of McDonald's, IBM, UPS, Target, Hewlett-Packard, and General Electric, combined.'' The Save American Workers Act will likely proceed to the Senate today, where it will join a cue of 30-plus other House-passed bills that would help the economy and create jobs. Americans want to work. Why won't the Senate do its job and consider those bills? ____________________
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina
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Apr 3, 2014

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