Blaine Luetkemeyer: “73 percent of community banks report regulatory burdens are preventing them from making residential loans.”

The American economy is dependent upon the success of small businesses, and right now these businesses are in deep trouble. Government red tape and overly burdensome regulations choke off economic growth and suppress job creation.

This is about transparency and oversight. This is about holding this administration accountable to not only Congress, but also to America's small businesses and their millions of workers.

Regulatory Burden Under Biden Soars to $1.6 Trillion, 292 Million Paperwork Hours.

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…