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Hire More Heroes Act of 2015

Floor Speech

Date: Jan. 6, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Veterans

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Mr. CHABOT. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.

Madam Speaker, in the fall, we made a commitment to the American
people, a commitment to produce solutions that grow our economy and
create more opportunity and help our small businesses and make life
better for working families. Today, the new American Congress begins
the work of making good on that commitment, and we start with a bill
that helps two groups critical to America's success: our veterans and
our small businesses.

The Hire More Heroes Act is a bipartisan bill which passed the House,
as has been mentioned before, with more than 400 votes last year. It
would make it easier for small businesses to hire veterans by exempting
those veterans who already receive health care at the VA from
ObamaCare's costly employer mandate. This commonsense solution offsets
the cost of hiring a veteran by addressing one of ObamaCare's many
failures, and there are many.

As I have said many times before, I and many of my colleagues believe
that ObamaCare should be repealed in its entirety. It may take awhile
to do that, and so we can do some other things in the meantime. This is
one of those things, a realistic thing which will actually help the
American people.

ObamaCare is placing tremendous burdens on small businesses looking
to grow and individuals looking for work. This bill alleviates one of
the many burdens ObamaCare places on our small businesses and, in doing
so, helps our returning war fighters find meaningful work.

Small businesses are responsible for the majority of new jobs created
in America today. As the new incoming chairman of the House Small
Business Committee, my goal each day will be to make life better for
America's small businesses so they can continue to innovate and create
jobs for more Americans who are seeking them.

Even though unemployment has come down to some degree, we need to do a lot better. The bill before us today is an important step towards
that goal and towards our commitment to the American people to create
more jobs, real jobs in the private sector. I encourage my colleagues
to support the bill.

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