According to a survey by the manufacturers, 72 percent of manufacturers plan to increase wages or benefits this year; 77 percent plan to hire more employees.

a year from now, two years from now or five years from now

Opportunity Zones, on the other hand, will bring, ' . . . the best possible mix of investments in new and expanding businesses, infrastructure and energy projects, commercial real estate, affordable housing, and more.'

This is why one-size-fits-all Federal spending programs or incentives to invest only in particular activities are not well suited to address each community's unique set of challenges.

My hope is a simple one: That as we see the manifestation and the creation around the country of Opportunity Zones that we will be having another joint meeting in a year, in two years, so that we can measure the progress made in reasonable…

Every day, we are seeing more and more great news about the current economic expansion in America, a trend that is breaking records and exciting economists and citizens alike.

If we aren't finding ways to give these smart, hardworking folks a hand up, we simply aren't doing our job.

Mr. Speaker, yesterday, at an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council, Ambassador Nikki Haley spoke truthfully about the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks in Gaza over many years by tunnel and firebombs using human shields financed…

Mr. Speaker, this weekend I was grateful to lead a congressional delegation to Jerusalem, where we met yesterday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Foreign Affairs Chairman Avi Dichter, while we attended the opening of the…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of Mr. John Wilkerson, Jr., who died on May 9, 2018. He was born in Hickory Grove, South Carolina, and remained a South Carolina local throughout his life. As a young man, he served in the United…

The deliberative process within the executive branch will continue to play out in an iterative fashion.

long-term workforce reductions.

In my opinion, the NSR program in its current form seems like a counterproductive policy that disincentivizes companies from pursuing projects that would increase efficiency and mitigate environmental pollution.

They expect our government to be more efficient and I think that's what the purpose of Mr. Griffith's efforts are--to make government and at least the EPA and its permitting process a little more efficient.

Fifty-seven percent of small business owners are hiring or trying to hire.

A third of small businesses report increased worker compensation.

We want to say thank you for the type of work that you all do over there at the Administration.

Only 13 percent of small businesses say that taxes are the number-one issue since the tax reform.