“There’s another thing Congress can do right now for consumers and small businesses: pass the Credit Card Competition Act—a bipartisan bill I sponsor with Senator Marshall of Kansas. This bill would bring down the cost of swipe fees that Visa and Mastercard take out of every purchase we make with a credit card.”
Opening statement in Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing
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Let’s put farm families back in the Farm Bill. And what I’m talking about specifically are not only the profits and losses in farm operations, but the burdens that farm families are carrying.
Here’s what I’m proposing—it is modest, by federal standards, but it is important. I think we ought to make a commitment in this Farm Bill to rural hospitals.
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