Bill Posey: “Where are the jobs? I'll tell you where they're not. They're not created or seemingly even encouraged by the U.S.…”

“Where are the jobs? I'll tell you where they're not. They're not created or seemingly even encouraged by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Department is still bullying small mom-and-pop businesses to complete lengthy, time- consuming, and expensive questionnaires about their personal business; but they don't have time to answer my questions about the need, the justification, or the actual use of the information in those questionnaires. A letter received by a constituent just yesterday threatens that if they don't get their economic census back within 2 weeks, they will refer their case to general counsel. How can constituents trust this agency when even the formerly independent IRS is now used as a partisan tool to punish people the administration does not like? If the Department of Commerce really cared about improving our commerce, they would leave our mom-and-pops alone to make a living, creating jobs. ____________________”