Luetkemeyer: “What you are saying is that when you raise taxes, to the extent that the individual or small business cannot even pay…”

Last, I want to call upon my colleagues to actually show their support for community financial institutions by working with me to ensure that Congress does not follow the Trump Administration's proposal to slash funding for the CDFI fund…

If government employees acting without statutory authority can coerce banks into denying services to firms engaged in lawful behavior that the government doesn't like, where does it stop?

Despite the numerous testimonies, hearings, statements, and letters highlighting these issues, this committee has remained silent.

But we still did damage to the economy, because the gamesmanship caused us not to address this very serious problem.