Jim Hagedorn

Let's hope this hearing can shed light on why defunding the police is a dangerous idea with deadly results.

This whole equity stuff needs to go away. This woke stuff needs to go away.

If you are going to be giving out government grants, let's make sure that everyone has the same opportunity.

There are too many in this world who cast doubts on science as a tool, and they actively lobby international institutions to adopt their anti-innovation agenda.

A lot of the problems in the trucking industry are bad government policies or government policies that were well-intended on safety and other issues.

I don't think this bill that is coming along, $3.5 trillion, whatever it is, with all sorts of taxes, regulations, higher cost energy, I mean, I don't know a small business out there that says higher-cost energy is going to do the trick.

let's quit micromanaging the economy, let's quit dumping cash into the economy at a time when businesses aren't ready to respond and spurring more inflation, shortages of products, services, labor, you name it.

We should be doing what we can to have less manufacturing in China and more manufacturing in the United States.

It is going to drive up cost and it is going to make it less reliable.

capitalism is always compassionate, because without producing wealth, you have no wealth in order to help people.

I am somebody who has been a pretty strong supporter of employee-owned businesses and co-ops.

One of the pieces of legislation that I have is the American Workforce Empowerment Act that says that if families have saved for college education for their kids, that they should be able to use that money, not just for 4-year college, but…

I think there are some bad government policies on the horizon that might hurt your small businesses.

All rural economies are vital and important to the health of our country, and forest product sector is no different.

If we don't manage the forests properly, we are in big trouble on a number of fronts.

It is these big things that sometimes government can really screw up and hurt you on--taxes, regulations, energy, trade, and equipment.

I think we all want equality out of SBA, we want to make sure everybody is treated the same.

That is not fair, that is not equal. I don't know how that is not discriminatory.

I think let's work together, please, and get the money to our restaurant owners. They really need it at this time.

Rural America needs this, and I always say that without a robust rural economy, all people, including those in the cities, are going to wake up in the cold, dark and hungry.

We are asking, we are pleading, with the bipartisanship of this Congress to please pass our bill.

If we cannot swap out the technology and keep it as low cost, reliable, and abundant, we should not do it.

This administration under Biden attacking U.S. energy, going after the lifeblood of our economy, it is absolutely I think disgusting.

If you think this is the big problem, you have got to go after China.