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On the recordMay 18, 2010
this editorial that appeared in the Wall Street Journal today says we can have a stimulus that will cost taxpayers nothing by freeing our small businesses and especially our entrepreneurial and high-tech businesses from the burdens of all this paperwork and instead let them focus on growing, on listing their IPOs in America for the benefit of the American economy. That is what we should be doing, and that is what the editorial says. I hope very much my colleagues will listen and we will be able to pass the Hutchison-Landrieu amendment, hopefully by voice vote. This should be a unanimous amendment passage.
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Kay Bailey Hutchison
Republican · Texas

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Senator Hutchison discusses a Wall Street Journal editorial advocating for reducing paperwork burdens on small businesses.

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