Save American Workers Act of 2015

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Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, I also am proud to cosponsor this bill and thank the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Young) for his hard work on it.

I think it is fascinating that we hear from my colleagues from the
other side that they are so interested in how much money the Federal
Government would lose--the Federal Government. I wonder who they came
here to work for. Are they interested in how many dollars their
hardworking taxpayers are losing by the implementation of this ill-
founded law?

I just got off of the phone with one of my employers in the district
who has about 500 employees. It is a good, hardworking, family-run
business, and he tells me, the number one issue that he is dealing with
is poring over spreadsheets day in and day out, trying to figure out
how he can put one employee in a place where that employee wants to
work in his business because that employee might want more hours
because he wants to make his own or her own choice about health care or
how much money he or she has. Maybe that employee is retired, their
husband or wife is retired, and they just need the extra hours, want
the extra hours, but he can't provide them.

Mr. Speaker, it is interesting to me that some folks on the other
side said, just help us fix it. Yet when we try to fix it, they say,
no, it is fine; it is perfect the way it is.

Mr. Speaker, central planning did not work in the USSR. It does not
work in Cuba. And I wish you would quit trying to place it in the
United States.

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