Blaine Luetkemeyer: “From the banks I have talked to and the online lenders I have talked to, that is not the problem.”

I thank the chairman for yielding and thank him for managing the floor today. I was supposed to do that, and I got stuck in a snowstorm and slid all the way here, but I am here and glad to be here. Before us today are a number of bills…

I am an interesting guy to have on the committee here this morning because I was a sponsor, the Republican sponsor, of the Corporate Transparency Act.

I can tell you I was part of the group that put the PPP program together. And I can tell you I was very strenuous in my concerns about allowing the fintech companies in.

We must cripple their economy and return to the previous Administration's maximum pressure campaign, in my opinion.