Economy Creates Zero Jobs in August

Press Release

Today's report from the Department of Labor is the latest reminder that the policies of President Obama and liberals in Congress continue to prevent the economy from recovering:

"Today's unemployment numbers are just another painful reminder that it is long past time for President Obama to reverse course and support efforts to get government out of the way so businesses can create jobs.

By every objective measure, the President's big spending, big government economic policies have failed to create jobs, get small and medium-sized businesses growing again, or reduce the cloud of pessimism and uncertainty hanging over our economy. Unfortunately, every indication is that next week the President will make yet another speech proposing more of the same: more spending, more taxes and more regulations.

If President Obama and Senator Reid are serious about getting the economy back on track and putting Americans back to work, they will act on the ambitious regulatory reform agenda the we will take up beginning this month, many of which are ideas identified by Indiana businesses as part of the Red Tape Rollback initiative that I launched with the Indiana Chamber of Commerce earlier this year," Rokita said.

Among the bills to be voted on in the House are eight bills that have been identified by Indiana businesses, through the Red Tape Rollback initiative, as high priority reforms. They are:

* Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act, H.R. 2587, prevents the National Labor Relations Board from restricting where an employer can create jobs
* Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation (TRAIN) Act, H.R. 2401, requires the EPA to do an economic analysis for EPA rules and also delays utility MACT rules.
* EPA Regulatory Relief Act, H.R. 2250, provides additional time for the EPA to issue achievable standards for boilers, process heaters, and incinerators
* Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, H.R. 2273, allows states to regulate coal ash rather than federal bureaucrats
* Farm Dust Regulations Prevention Act, H.R. 1633, protects American farmers and jobs by prohibiting the EPA from revising anti-smog standards for a year.
* Grandfathered Health Plans -- The Obama administration is going back on their previous statement that those who liked their health care plan could keep it. Far fewer employer health plans will be grandfathered in to Obamacare. My committee of Education and Workforce Development plans to work on legislation to repeal this Obamacare restriction.
* Ozone Rule -- the EPA Administrator is pushing ahead of schedule to implement stricter anti-smog rules, drastically increasing the areas who cannot reach ozone levels acceptable to the EPA, thus costing jobs.
* NLRB Ambush Elections -- the NLRB proposed a rule that would alter union election procedures by not giving employers or employees enough time to react to a unionization vote. This creates tremendous uncertainty for private employers. Again, the Education & Workforce Development committee is working to create legislation to reign in the NLRB's overzealous practices in union elections.

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