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On the recordJune 12, 2013
Madam Speaker, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, H.R. 634, the Business Risk Mitigation and Price Stabilization Act of 2013, is bipartisan legislation. It will help provide America's job creators with greater certainty so that they can invest more in our still-struggling economy and help create desperately needed jobs for the millions who remain either unemployed or underemployed. Again, when our so-called recovery has produced 4 million fewer jobs than the average recovery of the last 70 years, clearly nothing is more important than finding solutions that will help grow our economy and create more and better jobs for those who need them. Americans want and deserve a healthier economy and a more secure future. But, regrettably, all too often Washington, either inadvertently or on purpose, creates piles and piles, mountains upon mountains of unnecessary red tape for our entrepreneurs or small business people and our job creators. Quite often, Madam Speaker, this institution makes the goal of economic growth and job creation more difficult. But the bipartisan bill before us today is helpful. It is needed to help protect manufacturers, ranchers, thousands of Main Street businesses across the Nation from unnecessary red tape that would divert their resources and time away from the activities to make their businesses successful and thus create more jobs. One manufacturer told the Financial Services Committee earlier this year, a Mr.…
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Jeb Hensarling
Republican · Texas

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