Blaine Luetkemeyer

And we shouldn't be penalizing the people who are trying to sell products and services in that manner.

But I think, just don't overblow the problem here and throw the baby out with the bathwater, and that this is a very, very good way of allowing people to purchase products, and to pay for them in a timely manner, as they can afford them.

On August 26th, 13 American families experienced the worst day of their lives. They received the knock on the door that every parent of a servicemember prays will never come. For those families, the conversation that followed was the most…

I support the Women's Business Centers. Do not get the wrong impression here.

My concern though is that the IG report also showed that the employees of SBA, the staff, was not following up and adhering to the recommendations.

My job is to provide the oversight of all of the programs, to make sure they are working properly.

I urge you to continue to follow up to make sure that the personnel follow up and adhere to the recommendations.

So the question, I guess, is how far along is SBA in resolving OIG's 10 recommendations?

We need to correct those things and fix them quickly.

But one of my concerns is that, number one, we knew that at least two of these programs had problems to the extent that they should have been closed and were not.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

if we want to grow this economy, we have to protect the small businesses, the entrepreneurs of this country, to be able to grow our next economy.

It has now been over 150 days since the Secretary has defied her legal duty to testify before our committee.

This blatant disregard for main street USA appears to be a pattern within the Biden administration.

I think that we actually have a template in place which shows how we can fix the problems at SBA.

Increases to the corporate tax rate, increases to the individual rates, and the increases to the capital gains rate will all crush our country's small businesses.

Community banks have played a significant role in assisting and rescuing small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

I think Congressman Williams hit it right. Who is going to be there for the customer more than the community bank or the people in the community, invested in the community, who already have them as customers, or a big government…

People aren't aware that this is going on. Why are you allowing it to continue?

Whenever I discuss screen scraping with my constituents and explain to them what it is, they are aghast.

The first way you protect people's privacy and their information is to be honest with them up front.

Most people do not know what is going on and would be very reluctant to sign a form that says it is okay to do that.

But most people don't approve of what you are doing. They don't approve of screen scraping.

Small business owners like you are the drivers of the United States' economy and workforce.

As Ranking Member of the Small Business Committee, it is an honor to work alongside my colleagues to create commonsense policies that uplift our nation's small businesses.