Sam Graves

Small businesses need common sense solutions, the kinds that are both environmentally sound and economically viable.

the courts will probably end up deciding what is going to happen and what our fate is going to be.

Thank you, Madam Chairman, for having this hearing and choosing an initiative that is so critically important to business and to agriculture.

It is really, really awful to have a radical environmental group sue the government and they are really after you.

You cannot do all of those things on the backs of small business; and you need to be careful about trying to do all of those things before the end of the year.

If we allow the 2001-2003 tax cuts to expire and then put on top of them additional taxes... we are looking at close to 65 percent tax rates for small business people.

We need to confirm them head on within innovative solutions.

Small companies need predictability in the tax code.

I have introduced legislation to permanently extend the 2001-2003 tax cuts.

We must do better. America's small business need our help to create jobs and turn the economy around.

only $200 billion of ARRA's 787 billion are actually being provided in funds and being committed.

Thank you, Madam Chair, for holding this markup. And I appreciate your leadership on this issue...

I am a strong opponent to a national employer health care mandate, especially one administered by the federal government.

The rapid rise in the cost of health care is placing a strain on many working families and small businesses.

My principal objective is to make health care more affordable without sacrificing access to quality care.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And I would like to thank you for holding this markup on the Job Creation Through Entrepreneurship Act of 2009.

If we do nothing, if Congress does nothing on this issue, we now have a Supreme Court ruling directing EPA.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for participating in today's hearing.

I want to thank Chairwoman Velazquez for holding this timely hearing.

Today's hearing represents the beginning of the committee's work to review and reauthorization the SBIR program.

This committee is obviously very interested in that and how venture capital plays.

This program is an example of a highly successful Federal initiative designed to encourage economic growth and innovation within the small business community.

I represent a very rural area. There is a lot of opportunities out there, I think.

It is very misguided when we hear some of the comments that were made by folks, just literally demagogueing the issue of aviation.

I was very concerned, being a commercial pilot myself, when we had the outrage that we had about individuals flying into D.C. in their private aircraft.