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Congressman
John Boehner...
Ohio
VP speaks out against job-crushing
regulations
New federal regulations threaten jobs
at Ohio plant visited recently be Obama
Posted by Press Office on October 04,
2011
Local
jobs at a Cincinnati, Ohio
concrete plant – the same one used by President Obama to tout his
economic plan
last month – are threatened by new federal regulations proposed by the
Obama
Administration. And the vice president of the plant is speaking out.
Brad
Slabaugh, VP of Hilltop Basic
Resources, traveled to Washington, DC to share his story with lawmakers
this
week. Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam (R-IL) – who has played a lead
role in
identifying job creators hurt by excessive and unnecessary federal
regulations
– explained at a press conference that new “cement MACT” rules “will
have an
adverse impact on job creation” at plants like Hilltop:
“This
is the side of the story the
president didn’t tell when he traveled to our community last month,”
said
Congressman Boehner, “And I commend Brad for traveling to the Capitol
to share
it. It’s about jobs – jobs in the Tri-State area, and jobs across this
country.”
The
threat posed to jobs by these
cement-sector regulations was outlined by Reps. Steve Chabot (R-OH) and
Geoff
Davis (R-KY) in a letter sent to President Obama when he traveled to
Cincinnati. Just yesterday, House leaders sent another letter asking
the
president to work with Republicans to enact the Cement Sector
Regulatory Relief
Act (H.R. 2681), bipartisan legislation eliminating these excessive
rules and
protecting jobs at plants like Hilltop. Rep. Roskam reiterated that
request
again today.
The
Republican Plan for America’s Job
Creators is focused on removing government barriers to private-sector
job
growth like the “cement MACT” rule. “Everyone agrees some government
regulations are needed; it’s part of the federal government’s
constitutional
mandate,” said Congressman Boehner. “But some federal regulations, like
this
one, do more harm than good, and they’re making it very difficult for
small
businesses in our economy to add jobs and expand.”
Learn
more about the Republican jobs
plan at http://www.jobs.GOP.gov and read more about the bipartisan jobs
bills
on the House floor this week at http://www.gop.gov/indepth/jobs.
See video here.
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