Roger Williams: “Today's hearing is critical in examining the impact of the industry's overregulation on small businesses and small…”

This important legislation will hold these fraudsters accountable, and I urge my colleagues to support it. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Not one small business has said, yeah, we need more rules and regulations. Not one.

Main street is facing a dire labor shortage, with 90 percent of businesses reporting few or no qualified applicants in August.

All of us are going to get the message out. It really has great timing from our standpoint, because now we can compare socialism, Marxism, communism with what Texas values are all about and American values: capitalism and free markets.