Political Quotes

“my ranking member, Senator Bumpers, and I are very pleased to be able to bring to the floor this vitally important small business regulatory reform bill. I want to express at the beginning my heartfelt thanks to Senator Bumpers, to his staff, and to the many Members on both sides of the aisle and their staffs who helped us work on this measure. We will be presenting a managers' amendment very shortly, when they complete drafting all of the good ideas that came in. We had a very good hearing on this in the Small Business Committee. Lots of people have had good ideas. We have been able to incorporate most of them. We are not able to handle all of them. But this measure is targeted clearly to small business. As we come up on the first anniversary of the White House Conference on Small Business, I think it is very important that we move forward. I appreciate the Members who have allowed us to go forward today with this bill. As most of my colleagues know, last June almost 2,000 delegates to the White House Conference on Small Business came to Washington to vote on an agenda of top concerns for small business.”