Roger Williams: “A financial transaction tax would make it more expensive for small retail investors to trade, and so much for looking…”

American small businesses are the engines of our economy, they are the entrepreneurs and they make America move and grow.

I urge my colleagues to support this commonsense legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Goldman of Texas). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Williams) that…

Due to a personal family matter, I was unable to vote on H.R. 881--the DHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern Act. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 120.

If we want to truly help Main Street America we should oppose this amendment and support the underlying bill.