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Excerpt: "Hispanic-owned businesses in Illinois' Sixth District, and across the country, are critically important to the American economy's strength and vitality," said Congressman Peter Roskam. "It's a great honor to receive the 'President's Award.' The Hispanic Chamber represents nearly three million businesses – entrepreneurs, small business people, and job creators that are the engine of America's economy. They are a testament to our free enterprise system that has made the American dream possible."
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Excerpt: "For the millions of Americans still out of work, today is just one more painful reminder that Washington's rampant borrowing and spending has grown our debt, but not jobs. Yet even as the borrow, tax, and spend policies severely hurt our economy, Senate Democrats continue to put politics ahead of policy – refusing sensible spending cuts – and rooting for a shutdown.
“That spending mentality, coupled with a constant drive to raise taxes, is a recipe for sustained economic disaster."
Op-Ed: The Daily Caller, by Congressman Peter Roskam
Excerpt: What's happened here is that decades of reckless government spending has forced places like New Jersey and Illinois to increase taxes time and time again. The path to economic recovery, debt reduction, and job creation is not through tax increases, however, but through cutting spending and reforming our onerous tax code — the single greatest thing we can do to give job-creators more confidence in their futures.
Our current tax code punishes American companies for success time and again. Rather than enticing our companies to stay, it actually encourages them to head elsewhere for a more friendly business environment. And rather than create a better business environment, Illinois chose to double down on those failures, and our citizens will pay the price.
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Excerpt: "It was valuable to see the incredible progress that's been made in rebuilding Liberia after a destructive civil war," said Rep. Peter Roskam. "That progress was particularly evident at Firestone, where thousands of Liberians have steady jobs, access to high-quality medical facilities and schools, and the ability to create a better life. There is a long way to go before Liberia fully recovers from the devastating effects of a brutal dictator and civil war, but efforts like these are important steps to achieving that goal."
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Excerpt: "Microfinance services help provide steady incomes for families all over Ghana – empowering Ghanaians to create better lives for themselves and their children," said Congressman Peter Roskam. "These small loans assist poor entrepreneurs who are starting or expanding a business. Breaking the cycle of poverty that millions in underdeveloped countries around the world suffer from is incredibly difficult and important. I applaud locally-based Opportunity International for their valuable continued work."
Article: The Daily Herald, by Kerry Lester
Excerpt: The company's founder, he said, told him he wanted to invest $3 million into a new production line, but was unable to because of rising taxes, energy and health care costs.
"What this conversation is about is making that waiting go away," Roskam said. "To try to create an environment where that type of business decision gets a different signal from Washington, D.C. There's certainty, there's clarity, there's an opportunity to grow and to prosper. Ultimately this is a conversation on removing obstacles to job creation."
Removing many federal regulations will create a better environment for economic growth, Republicans say.
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Excerpt: "We're going to be hearing from employers – employers of companies as small as 20 employees, to as large as 20,000 employees, here focused in Washington, and trying to highlight how it is that Congress can create an environment where the barriers to job creation are removed, and ultimately there is a buoyancy that returns to the economy.
Op-Ed, by Congressman Roskam
Excerpt: I look forward to a robust conversation hearing from job creators about what Washington needs to do – and should stop doing – to create an environment where private sector jobs can be created.
Job creators have been clear about what's working and what's not. Preventing the massive tax increases last December was a crucial first step to restoring certainty to the marketplace. Yet that is only one piece, and many barriers to job creation remain. Job creators want us to continue to stop the spending and debt binge Washington has been hooked on. Republicans have made a bold first step – cutting $100 billion from the President's budget request – to begin to live within our means and stop spending money we don't have.
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Excerpt: "Today's votes show a great contrast between those willing to do something meaningful for long-term job creation and those committed to Washington's status-quo. House Republicans have already passed a serious proposal to responsibly fund the government while cutting back spending to pre-stimulus, pre-2008 levels. In contrast, Senate Democrats created a status-quo spending bill and then 'drew a line in the sand' against negotiating any more cuts."
Article: McClatchy Newspapers, by David Lightman
Excerpt: Beneath the surface, however, there's one kernel of harmony that offers hope for eventual compromises that matter.
"The entire conversation in Washington, D.C. has changed," said House Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam, R-Ill. "Now the entire conversation, including the conversation with the Senate and the White House, is where are we going to save?"