Where Are The Jobs?

Floor Speech

(Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)

Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, when I travel around my district, I run into a lot of people who are looking for work, hanging on by their fingertips, and they want to know, When's Washington going to wake up? They're asking, Where are the jobs?

I have run a small business, and one of the things a small business needs in order to grow is they need some certainty, certainty about what the future is going to look like. With all of this talk about raising taxes here in Washington, D.C., imposing mandates on employers in the health care bill or a new national energy tax, all they're doing is creating more uncertainty that is causing employers to be frozen in their job creation.

The Congressional Budget Office has made clear that the mandate that was in the Senate- and House-passed bills, the Senate bill, $750 per person for an employer who doesn't offer health care to their employees, each employer may have to pay that fee. Now what we see is the President offering that that penalty should be $2,000 per employee. This is going to raise the cost of employment and, according to the Congressional Budget Office, costs tens of thousands of jobs across our country.

It's time to scrap this bill, to get back to commonsense ideas that will help improve the cost of health care in America and widen access and bring some certainty to employers across this country who want to hire more people but won't with all of the uncertainty that is out there

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