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As congressional Republicans continue their dogged effort to repeal Obamacare before the law is more fully implemented in 2014, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, warned that the health-care reform law will depress workers earnings and inhibit job growth in the weekly Republican address on Saturday. Effective health-care reform should provide Americans with access to quality and affordable care while also encouraging economic growth. That s not what is happening und stanley cup er Obamacare, Collins said. Instead, Obamacare is actually discouraging small businesses from creating jobs and hiring new employees. The law also has perverse incentives for employers to reduce the number of hours that their employees can work. She warned of two particular provisions in the law that will have an adverse effect on wages and job creation. The first - the employer mandate - requir stanley cup es businesse stanley quencher s with more than 50 full-time employees to provide health insurance for those employees. If you employ 49 workers, there are no fines. But, if you add just one more employee, you re hit with penalties, she said. These enormous penalties are a real threat to employers who want to add jobs. They are a powerful incentive for employers to refrain from hiring additional workers. Even worse, Collins said, is a provision defining any employee who works more than 30 hours per week as full time. She warned, This will only cause some businesses to reluctantly reduce the hours of th Llhn Department of Education opens investigation into Harvard University s legacy admissions
President Bush and congressional leaders met yesterday following a day of drama and stagecraft that ended in the president s veto of stanley canada the $124 billion Iraq war-funding bill. It makes no sense to tell the enemy when you plan to start withdrawing, the president said, referring to the timetable for withdrawal that Congress placed in the bill. All terrorists would have to do is mark their calendars. He said the bill would have set a deadline for failure. In response, leaders of the Democratic majority in Congress said the country has turned against the war and that it was time for the Iraqis to take over their own country. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared that Congress would no longer give Bush a blank check for Iraq.Congress probably will try to pass a bill containing nonbinding benchmarks for the Iraq government to meet, such as reducing sectarian violence and approving a system for distributing oil revenue to competing factions. It s unclear whether Bush will accep garrafa stanley t this approach. What is certain is that the PR battle will continue.It was on full display on Veto Day. The Democrats sent Bush the bill on the fourth anniversary of his standing on the deck of aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, in front of a giant Mission Accomplished sign, and declaring that major combat operations in Iraq stanley vattenflaska were over. Realizing the timing problem, the White House responded by having Bush travel in the morning to MacDill Air Force Base o
As congressional Republicans continue their dogged effort to repeal Obamacare before the law is more fully implemented in 2014, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, warned that the health-care reform law will depress workers earnings and inhibit job growth in the weekly Republican address on Saturday. Effective health-care reform should provide Americans with access to quality and affordable care while also encouraging economic growth. That s not what is happening und stanley cup er Obamacare, Collins said. Instead, Obamacare is actually discouraging small businesses from creating jobs and hiring new employees. The law also has perverse incentives for employers to reduce the number of hours that their employees can work. She warned of two particular provisions in the law that will have an adverse effect on wages and job creation. The first - the employer mandate - requir stanley cup es businesse stanley quencher s with more than 50 full-time employees to provide health insurance for those employees. If you employ 49 workers, there are no fines. But, if you add just one more employee, you re hit with penalties, she said. These enormous penalties are a real threat to employers who want to add jobs. They are a powerful incentive for employers to refrain from hiring additional workers. Even worse, Collins said, is a provision defining any employee who works more than 30 hours per week as full time. She warned, This will only cause some businesses to reluctantly reduce the hours of th Llhn Department of Education opens investigation into Harvard University s legacy admissions
President Bush and congressional leaders met yesterday following a day of drama and stagecraft that ended in the president s veto of stanley canada the $124 billion Iraq war-funding bill. It makes no sense to tell the enemy when you plan to start withdrawing, the president said, referring to the timetable for withdrawal that Congress placed in the bill. All terrorists would have to do is mark their calendars. He said the bill would have set a deadline for failure. In response, leaders of the Democratic majority in Congress said the country has turned against the war and that it was time for the Iraqis to take over their own country. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared that Congress would no longer give Bush a blank check for Iraq.Congress probably will try to pass a bill containing nonbinding benchmarks for the Iraq government to meet, such as reducing sectarian violence and approving a system for distributing oil revenue to competing factions. It s unclear whether Bush will accep garrafa stanley t this approach. What is certain is that the PR battle will continue.It was on full display on Veto Day. The Democrats sent Bush the bill on the fourth anniversary of his standing on the deck of aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, in front of a giant Mission Accomplished sign, and declaring that major combat operations in Iraq stanley vattenflaska were over. Realizing the timing problem, the White House responded by having Bush travel in the morning to MacDill Air Force Base o