Mr. ROE of Tennessee. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
I rise in strong support of the Fairness for American Families Act. As chairman of the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pension Subcommittee, I've held three hearings outside the Beltway--one in North Carolina--where we talked to businesses and individuals about the effect of the Affordable Care Act on them and their businesses.
Let me just tell you about some people that I heard from. One was a divorced server in a restaurant that had her hours cut from 40 to 29 so that the company could stay in business. This woman now is missing an entire week's worth of hours every single month. She can't pay her bills unless she gets another job. The same problem for adjunct professors at the local community college.
And now, the audacity of what we've done is we've forced businesses to cut these hours, where they make less money, and then penalize you when you don't buy something. That's wrong. The right thing to do is to delay this for both individuals and businesses so they can work out the problems. That was the President's suggestion. I strongly support this bill.