Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, this motion will not delay passage of this bill or return it to committee. It is our last opportunity as a House to amend this legislation. Mr. Speaker, I am here to offer a motion to recommit that is about small business survival. It is about protecting the 8 million minority- owned small businesses, the 9.9 million women-owned small businesses, and the 2.5 million veteran-owned small businesses around the country from the devastating repercussions of H.R. 582. With this motion to recommit, employers with fewer than 10 employees or annual sales under $1 million will not be forced to implement a $15- per-hour minimum wage. If this amendment is adopted, mom-and-pop shops across the country will be protected from this bill's extreme and unnecessary one-size- fits-all Washington mandate. Small businesses employ almost half of all U.S. employees and account for two-thirds of net new jobs. 99.9 percent of U.S. businesses are small. We know small businesses and their employees are the most vulnerable to this radical and unprecedented increase in the Federal minimum wage. The National Federation of Independent Business estimates that businesses with fewer than 500 employees will account for 57 percent of jobs lost due to this bill, and businesses with fewer than 100 employees will account for 43 percent of jobs lost. Yet my Democrat colleagues have done nothing to protect these job creators from a 107 percent minimum wage hike.…”