Blaine Luetkemeyer: “I would urge you if you find banks that have received this threat and then receive an audit as a result of that, please…”

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.

You ignore the advice from the report that you actually requested and paid for from the accountants.

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.

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.