ROBERT HURT: “I think you--I hope you would agree that despite these efforts, community banks have been disproportionately affected.”

I think if you looked at the trend over the last 3 decades, you see that it has been brutal for community banks.

I think every member of this committee can agree that with millions of Americans out of work, our top focus in Congress should be enacting policies to help spur job creation throughout our country.

These critical investments allow our small businesses to innovate, expand their operations and create the jobs that our communities desperately need.

Every one of the measures we are considering today is designed to achieve that goal, whether that means establishing an office for small business capital formation, reducing the size of the administrative state or helping startups market…