Political Quotes

“At this point, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in support of this good piece of legislation, H.R. 2274. It is the Small Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and Brokerage Simplification Act. It is introduced by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Huizenga), who will be speaking momentarily. Mr. Speaker, during the period of overly burdensome Big Government-- of ObamaCare and of Dodd-Frank and thousands and thousands more regulations costing Americans literally trillions of dollars--it is really no surprise that the economic growth and job creation in this country remain sluggish. America's small businesses are the primary engine of job creation, for they are the ones who are disproportionately affected by simply a deluge of new rules and regulations coming out of Washington daily. In fact, according to a recent survey, small businesses continue to identify government regulation and red tape as the single most important problem facing them. While our colleagues in the Senate appear unwilling these days to pass any legislation to help create jobs, well, we have H.R. 2274 in the House that we take up, and it is done in a bipartisan manner. It is a commonsense piece of legislation that will remove some of these unnecessary regulations and obstacles to small business development, growth, and job creation.…”