Don Nickles: “first, I want to compliment my colleague, the chairman of the Small Business Committee, Senator Bond, for his…”

“first, I want to compliment my colleague, the chairman of the Small Business Committee, Senator Bond, for his leadership, as well as that of Senator Bumpers. It is great to see two people work together and push legislation that will be a real asset to small business. That is exactly what they have done. They have worked tirelessly in this committee. I served on that committee, and I tell my colleague, when I served on that committee, it was kind of frustrating because we talked a lot, but we did not do much. Frankly, the Senator from Missouri and the Senator from Arkansas are doing things, passing legislation to help small business, trying to make sure with the legislation they have introduced today that the impact of regulations on small business will be heard. If, for some reason, the regulatory agencies do not take small business impacts into account, their legislation will provide a means for directing the agencies to take those impacts into account in their regulations. So I compliment them for their efforts and leadership.”