Blaine Luetkemeyer

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.

We cannot keep printing them. ... It is going to decimate our economy, it is going to decimate our small businesses.

I move to support the gentleman from Minnesota's amendment that would prohibit the use of federal funds to implement President Biden's executive order.

I think it is very appropriate that if we are going to be allowing access to government taxpayer funds through the SBA, that we need to make sure that the people we are giving those dollars to are folks who are number one, credit worthy…

Should $2 million from American taxpayers go toward a working group or a program that is already operating well? I think the answer is no.

We need to take a look at that and understand that effect so we can finetune this bill at best and--or stop it, hopefully, to be able to make sure that this thing does not undermine the small business community.

The proposed funds associated with several of these duplicative programs are astounding.

I support the gentleman from New York's amendment here. I think it is important that we prioritize how we are going to be funding the different needs that are out there with regards to our country and our small businesses.

It is unwise for Members of this Committee to advance such programs without ensuring that American taxpayer dollars are safeguarded.

I think it is important that we are able to get these administrators, people who have the oversight at the very top, and are responsible for these programs to come before us to answer our questions.

I refuse to stand by and let the future of our small business economy become further dependent on Washington.

This is something we can actually fix.

I rise in opposition to the legislative provisions you have outlined in your amendment in the nature of a substitute.

I think the gentlelady from New York has a very thoughtful amendment here.

I certainly support the gentleman from Minnesota's amendment to direct SBA to report the number of small businesses looted during the civil unrest of 2020.

All this is going to do is speed up consolidation of small businesses and farms.

it has become abundantly clear that the Small Business Committee is no longer a Committee of bipartisanship.

Now more than ever it is our duty on this Committee to provide much needed relief to these struggling small business owners in the most responsible and efficient way possible.

This is another one we think is very important to be able to understand the effects of the tax increases in this huge monstrosity of a bill here, with regards to the impact on small businesses and their employees and their employers.

I certainly support Mr. Hagedorn's amendment. I think it is very timely, and very appropriate.

the Small Business Committee is known on Capitol Hill for working together in a bipartisan manner to achieve real results for main street, USA.

The federal government throwing more money into more pots is not going to solve the problem of having lenders on the ground...

I think we need to make sure that we keep the dollars out of the wrong people's hands.

I just wanted to reiterate my support for Ms. Tenney's amendment here. I think it is a thoughtful amendment here from the standpoint that it is well thought out.