Failure to provide funding that secures spent nuclear fuel will only cause further financial hardship on the American taxpayer.

I urge this subcommittee to seriously consider and support this request.

I am very concerned that doubling the Federal minimum wage will put a halt to a lot of that progress and will really gum up the works of job creation for workers without a lot of skills and without a lot of experience.

Signing the front of the paycheck and providing folks with a good job has been the greatest honor of my life.

This one size fits all, top down government regulation will destroy millions of hard-earned jobs and turn our growing economy and wage growth into decline.

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