Blaine Luetkemeyer: “I don't think there is a more important program out there than the restaurant grants.”

The continuation of that is going to be very, very important.

As much as I hate that bill and hate that rule, my intention on that was to make sure we minimize the effect of this bill or this rule because it originally was a horrendous thing.

In response to the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, my fellow Missourian, President Harry Truman, signed a law intended to ensure that our nation would have sufficient industrial resources to meet our national security needs.

I hate this rule. I fought it from the very beginning and once it got implemented we were trying to figure out how to make it minimally impactful on our folks.