Claudia Tenney: “I also wanted to recognize a very important industry in my region, and it is a great honor for me to be able to…”

“I also wanted to recognize a very important industry in my region, and it is a great honor for me to be able to represent a place called Revere Copper Company in Rome, New York. Yes, Revere was actually founded by none other than the great Paul Revere of our great history in this country. This great company was North America's first copper rolling mill and it was founded, again, by our great patriot, Paul Revere, in Rome, New York. It still resides in Rome, New York over 200 years later. Small businesses like this are the backbone of employment in New York's 22nd District, accounting for 98 percent of jobs created in our private sector. While everyone thinks all jobs are created by big companies, in fact, our small business community has 98 percent of those jobs created. In Congress, we need to make sure that we keep empowering our small businesses, creating a fair tax and regulatory environment that allows them to grow, to hire more workers, and to reinvest in our communities. Too many of our local businesses are held back by skyrocketing healthcare costs which cut into their bottom line, and our regulatory code, which requires a team of lawyers to decode, just to comply with the endless amounts of bureaucracy--something that I have experienced personally as the owner of a small manufacturing business in upstate New York. The time for debate and verbal platitudes need to end when it comes to our small business community, our employers need solutions.…”