Trent Kelly

The Small Business Broadband and Emerging Information Technology Act, H.R. 4677, addresses the bipartisan push for nationwide broadband.

I commend the Committee for all the work that has been done to bring broadband to rural America.

Today I want to rise and recognize my friend Judge Charles D. Thomas, who died recently and who was a great mentor and friend to me. Judge Thomas was a former military member and served as a company commander in the Mississippi Army…

And thank you for what you do.

This is a very important issue to me. And I come from an area that is booming right now.

We have got to look and smell the same, whether it is Active or Reserve.

If you want me to go fight the enemy as a National Guardsman, I have got to have an M1A2 SEPv2 tank.

I think we need to be more in the range of 604.

I am so scared with all this BCA [Budget Control Act] and sequestration and all these things that people are failing to understand that we are at critical risk in this Nation of asking our armed services to take massive casualties because…

Congress has one primary duty, in my opinion, and that is to provide for the defense of this nation.

It amazes me that we are arguing over the negative effects of the BCA. It is detrimental, it is extremely risky, it is possibly dangerous to not repeal the BCA.

I often say that a country must be able to defend itself and feed itself in order to be secure.

It is much more costly to fight a war than it is to preserve peace.

It is important to note by portraying and having strength in our military, it preserves peace and prevents wars.

I truly believe that the President's $603 billion mark is not enough. I truly believe that number should be 640 and not 603.

Like the Member who spoke before me-- General Grant served as Commander in Chief of the Union armies and later of all the Armies of the U.S. and then was President within 4 years of having that title. General Eisenhower served as Supreme…

My area in north Mississippi is one of the fastest growing, industry and tech companies are coming all the time and we can't get people to come.

We regularly hear from small business that testify before us about how the bureaucracy is such a great impediment to small businesses working with the Federal Government.

I wanted to first thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank the staff and members of the Small Business Committee for reaching out to rural America.

I can tell you my bankers do not have the same view as Mr. Stanley about Dodd-Frank and the impact it has on small banks.

Your banker in those small communities is much more than your banker, and I understand that.

When you lose that bank, you lose the town.

Community banks are very important. I am from Mississippi, in a rural area with a lot of manufacturing, and a lot of agriculture.

The Mississippi Bee Stewardship Program has been held up nationally as a model of the desired state management plan approach.

The majority of America does not believe protects them, and they believe it is punitive, and not helpful.