Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize O'Hara True Value Hardware in Ottumwa, Iowa, which is closing after 83 years in business. Martin and Florence O'Hara opened the doors of O'Hara Appliance in January of 1940, but before long, the…

We want to make sure we are recapturing those dollars.

A critical component of this Committee's work is to establish policies that promote rather than discourage entrepreneurship in this country.

I am truly honored, I am humbled, and excited to serve as Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee.

I look forward to passing meaningful legislation that will support small businesses and allow them to do what they do best.

I want to start my questions off by addressing the issues from the last Congress, and where so many of us got really concerned with some of the loans that were made.

Steep regulatory costs and the sheer volume of regulations that come from Federal agencies year after year too often prevent a would-be entrepreneur from ever taking the first step.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address the growing student loan debt in our Nation. Despite efforts by President Biden and the Democrats to forgive student loans, they are still a major financial commitment and should be treated as such…

All the while the Biden administration is taking action to take more American farmland out of production.

This plan aims to permanently conserve 30 percent of our country's lands and waters by 2030.

I think this hearing comes at a critical time because of Russia's influence on the world's supply of grain.

Mr. Speaker, yesterday, February 26, The Wall Street Journal released another article about the origins of COVID-19. This time, the Department of Energy has acknowledged that most likely this was a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of…

Mr. Speaker, today is also TCU or Texas Christian University Day at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. As an alum of Harris College of Nursing at TCU, I welcome TCU to Washington, D.C. As long as TCU is not playing an Iowa team, I can say…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Ben Kueter of Iowa City who took down Hempstead's Joe Lewis in a technical fall to win his fourth State title in wrestling--only the 32nd time in the history of the Iowa State wrestling tournament. He…

I have long had concerns with the FTC's vague statutory authority, but at this moment, we cannot ignore the current state of affairs at the FTC.

Our bill has guardrails. It does not give FTC any new power or regulatory authority.

I hope this committee will have the same success voting this bill out.

It is shocking that a commissioner would choose to resign rather than watch an agency's bipartisan tradition crumble in front of her eyes.