I have introduced a bill, Supporting Middle America's Airports Act, as well as the Essential Air Service Reform Act.

Reopening the EAS program is valuable, of course, to rural airports that are lacking commercial air service.

I have not had one small business tell me that, boy, that Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was somehow burdening me in some way.

The answer is driving tax compliance, and definitely processing and systems which we did. Not 87,000 new IRS agents.

The absence of commercial air services leaves rural communities without access to the Nation's airspace.

I want to certainly thank you, Chairman Graves, as well as subcommittee Chair Garret Graves and Ranking Member Larsen.

I appreciate it, and I really appreciate particularly, Chairman Graves, your listening on this issue.

It is just one of those busy days. I am on the Financial Services Committee as many of my colleagues have many other Committee hearings.

I think we have the second or third largest reserve of natural gas in the world.

the CFPB is proposing to implement a new rule, the Small Business Lending Data Collection Rule, that will impose burdensome new reporting requirements that would harm small business lending.

this rule may be unnecessarily burdensome to small entities, may impact the cost of credit for small businesses, and may lead to a decrease in lending to small, minority- and women-owned businesses.