Simply put, I would think it's important for the committee to examine the profile of federally regulated businesses to see that they're not all gigantic corporations that appear to be immune to economic pain. That's all. There are many smaller employers in this zone. Our constituency of human resource professionals--30,000 or more across the country--work in every conceivable kind of workplace, not just federally regulated ones, of course.
I think it's important to recognize that this kind of legislation will have a different effect on the small and medium-sized enterprises than on the larger ones that may be able to pool capital to sustain a long period without business. That's what we're talking about here--no operations, no services, no delivery of product through the means of alternative workers. It is essentially paralyzing them.