Roger Williams: “I have not had one small business in my district that said, please, Washington, put more regulations on me.”

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.

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.

Industries like construction are particularly affected, with the projection showing the need for over 500,000 additional workers annually.

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