Blaine Luetkemeyer

There is a huge lack of transparency with regards to your schedule.

You are making up a word and then using it to go out and enforce something that doesn't exist.

In a growing global economy, we must empower our small businesses to compete on the world stage. This legislation will ensure that entrepreneurs have ample opportunities to engage in international trade. H.R. 8844 also ensures…

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This amendment is similar to the rest of them in that we are looking to get information from Treasury.

Consequences of poor government policies have created an untenable economic situation for the hardest working and most vulnerable businesses in our country.

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.

We have a job to do. We have to take that responsibly and do our job responsibly and hold people accountable.

Fraud is fraud. I think that no matter when it took place or how, we need an all-hands-on-deck approach to deliver justice.

We need to know what kind of thought process is going on.

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.

Anything less is unacceptable.

We are not communicating the problems of small businesses to the administration with regards to their policies.

I appreciate your comment that you want to be an advocate for small business. I think that is your job, quite frankly.

Many in the American public feel that there is no identity to what is driving the Biden administration's trade policy agenda.

On the very same day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that CPI remains at a 40-year high, President Biden celebrated on the White House lawn a bill that the CBO found will not reduce inflation and in fact could slightly…

Inflation remains the top concern for small business owners, yet the Biden administration fails to provide solutions.

I am concerned that under the Biden administration China's economic aggression has gone unchecked, regulations and taxes have increased for American manufacturers, and backlogs at our ports have created supply chain disasters.

Unfortunately, today marks 512 days since Secretary Yellen has missed the legal deadline to testify before the Small Business Committee. This is unacceptable.

I have a bill, and it has actually passed the House, that stops the nonsense.

Oh, it is not. It is going full speed.

It is interesting that they are trying to redefine recession before the numbers come out which tells you they know where the numbers are going to be.

And the administration can deny the recession all they want but the bottom line is that American families are feeling the impact right now of this economic misery.

For instance, the latest number that I saw yesterday was $8,600 is what it is costing more for people to live this year than last year.

These highs are impacting all Americans and all small businesses.