Kevin Hern actually said...

"But we will work hard on this because it is so important to our nation and I said this in our Full Committee, that we cannot have big businesses in the future if we do not have small businesses today."

"So really, we are left just with one option. That is just raise income taxes on everybody to the point where we run out of other people's money to pay for things that we can't afford any more."

"With 99.9 percent of all businesses in the United States being classified as small, the impact that small businesses have on our economy cannot be overstated."

"Rural businesses, however, while facing those challenges, also tend to face a different set of challenges, most notably, access to reliable and affordable broadband service."