Roger Williams: “Dodd-Frank greatly increased compliance costs on smaller institutions throughout the country.”

Thank you, Chairman Williams for including this legislation in our markup today and I hope that all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will agree that simple, clear language is a way to ensure prosperity for our small businesses.

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

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

This amendment also guts the purpose of this bill by directing agencies to do something already within their purview.