Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. Last week Flores visited with two job creators from Texas & Ohio CEMEX and Hilltop Basic Resources who came to Washington to discuss their real world examples of how the Obama Administrations oppressive regulatory policies are devastating to their industry and to virtually all American employers especially during this time of economic uncertainty. Watch video here.
Both companies are part of the cement production industry and explained how H.R. 2681 will help restore certainty to their industry and businesses and create a better environment for hiring and economic growth.
Last Thursday the House passed H.R. 2681 The Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act of 2011. If signed into law this bill could save thousands of much-needed jobs and reduce regulatory damage on the construction industry. The following video is a compilation of the job creators visit to Washington courtesy of the GOP Conference.
Also view Floress full remarks on the House Floor here.
Excerpts: The worst offender that is inflicting this regulatory trauma under the Obama administration is the Environmental Protection Agency… The Cement MACT regulations that CEMEX and Hilltop face are some of the harshest of seven proposed or recently finalized EPA regulations targeting an already-weakened cement industry… Both CEMEX and Hilltop are experiencing depressed volume levels and are having to shed middle-class jobs as they respond to increasing economic uncertainty being generated by unelected unaccountable Washington bureaucrats. If the common-sense relief that we are currently considering does not pass these companies say they face a shutdown of up to 20 percent of their operations. Such a decrease in the production capacity of the cement industry would have a ripple effect across the economy impacting not only cement manufacturing jobs but the industries that heavily rely on them such as building and construction. Worse yet for all Americans these jobs and plants will be relocated to foreign countries further damaging Americas already declining industrial base and middle-class jobs."
Job creators across a range of industries have sent urgent calls to Washington pleading for Congress to remove burdensome regulations that could destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs nationwide.
To learn more about what Flores and his House Republican colleagues are doing to spur job creation visit the GOP Plan for Americas Job Creators.
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. Last week Flores visited with two job creators from Texas & Ohio CEMEX and Hilltop Basic Resources who came to Washington to discuss their real world examples of how the Obama Administrations oppressive regulatory policies are devastating to their industry and to virtually all American employers especially during this time of economic uncertainty. Watch video here.
Both companies are part of the cement production industry and explained how H.R. 2681 will help restore certainty to their industry and businesses and create a better environment for hiring and economic growth.
Last Thursday the House passed H.R. 2681 The Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act of 2011. If signed into law this bill could save thousands of much-needed jobs and reduce regulatory damage on the construction industry. The following video is a compilation of the job creators visit to Washington courtesy of the GOP Conference.
Also view Floress full remarks on the House Floor here.
