House Proceeding 11-06-09 on Nov 6th, 2009 :: 1:30:05 to 1:32:00
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Ted Poe: designate the amendment. the chair: house report -- printed in house report 111-389. the chair: the gentlewoman from illinois, mrs. halvorson and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the

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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: gentlewoman from illinois. mrs. halvorson: as a small business owner and a member of the small busine understand the challenges small business owners face on a day-to-day basis. i offer this amendment to help small chemical facities in meeting some of those challenges. my amendment is straightforward and necessary. giving the secretary of the

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Ted Poe: department of homeland security the authority to provide facilities with less than 350 employees the guidance, tools, and software to help them comply with the security requirements of the bill. we have a responsibility to make sure chemical facilities are safe, but we also have a responsibility to make sure that small businesses have the

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Ted Poe: assistance and the resources that they need to comply with new security requirements. that is what my amendment does. it helps small chemical security standards in an effective and profitable manner. based on d.h.s. analysis, we can expect that 15to 20% of

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Ted Poe: the chemical facilitieacross the country have less than 350 employees on site. that's a significant number of small businesses that we cannot forget as we move forward on security requirements. these are facilities that create jobs that invest in economic growth. in a tough economic environment, these small

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Ted Poe: businesses need to have the tools available to compete and succeed and again, that's what this amendment does. the bottom line is that we ne small chemical facilities to be secure but we also need them to be successful. this is an important amendment and it will help make sure that those two critical goals are accomplished.