Providing for Consideration of H.R. 4, Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011

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Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, as if businesses weren't struggling enough with the worst recession since the Great Depression, some Washington bureaucrat decided it was a good idea to distract the real job creators of our country from doing what they do best--create jobs.

To the gentleman from New York, that's what this debate is about, whether that hypothetical family actually has a job. But whether they should be distracted from creating jobs by requiring them to fill out mountains of 1099 paperwork. Obviously, the individual who came up with this brilliant idea has never had to meet a payroll or deal with the day-to-day operations of a small business.

Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland controls the time. The gentleman, by his silence, is not willing to yield.

Mr. HARRIS. Small business owners all over my district have told me that the 1099 provision would hurt their business. Trish Date, who co-owns Rittenhouse Fuel Services with her husband and Perry Hall, said it would be ``an administrative nightmare that would cost me thousands of dollars to implement.''

Last year, she used over 250 individual vendors that will now require 1099 forms to be printed, copied, mailed, completed, and sent to the venders and the IRS. Her small family-owned business simply does not have the resources or capacity to handle this onerous regulation.

Another business owner, Karen Oertel, whose family owns and operates the Harris Crab House on the eastern shore, said this 1099 mandate would be ``overwhelmingly burdensome on my family business.''

Mr. Speaker, the 1099 provision is simply a job-destroying regulation that wastes precious time, labor, and money. If we want to create jobs tomorrow, I urge my colleagues to join me in repealing this awful provision now by supporting H.R. 4.

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