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Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.
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Small Business
Entrepreneurs
Family Farm
Farm
Firsthand
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Trade agreements are important because they open up new marketplaces to small businesses, which ultimately translates into more jobs and greater economic growth.
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Economic Growth
Trade Agreements
Agreements
Small Businesses
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Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.
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Imposing
Aside
Business Community
Capital
Limit
Prosper
Regulations
Stifle
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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Deserve
Pay Raise
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The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.
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Obstacles
Sole
Unemployment
Start People Way
Encouraged
High Unemployment
Rates
Recession
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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Battle
Cry
Small Business
Claiming
Policies
Tool
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We must secure our borders and restore the rule of law, and more than anyone running, Ted Cruz has fought to make this nation secure while protecting our constitutional rights.
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Borders
Constitutional Rights
Cruz
Rule Of Law
Secure
Constitutional
Fought
Protecting
Restore
Ted
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Although 95 percent of the world's market for products exists outside the U.S., many small firms do not have the resources and personnel to take advantage of these opportunities.
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Advantage
Personnel
Exists
Take Advantage
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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Bigger
Congress
Epa
Higher
Livestock
Owners
Producers
Roadblock
Stomach
Delays
Headaches
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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Contracts
Integrity
Protected
Compete
Every Opportunity
Small Businesses
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When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.
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Running
Acting
Certainty
Huge
Owners
Budget
Budget Deficits
Washington
Deficits
Provide
Responsibly
Start
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It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done it. That's why I am endorsing Texas Governor Rick Perry for President.
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Endorsing
Republicans
Governor
Perry
Rick
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I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.
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Strengthen
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Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
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Advocating
Authority
Behalf
Input
License
Oversight
Small Business
Business Will More
Congressional
Grant
Programs
More And More
Statutory
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There is no doubt that the majority of Kansas Citians are happy with their three-terminal airport. I will advocate in Washington for our city to keep its unique airport as long as we want it.
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No Doubt
Advocate
Airport
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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Capability
Counterparts
Dodd Frank
Lending
Manpower
Additional
Hire
Hundreds
Regulations
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The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
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Certainty
Demand
Long Term
Significance
Volume
Effectively
Execute
Governments
Local Governments
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I do not like toll roads. Taxpayers are already paying for those roads through their gas taxes, and then to turn around and tell them they need to pay more to drive on the roads, I don't like it.
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Gas
Taxes
Paying
Roads
Toll
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The few effective provisions of Dodd-Frank are masked by its many flaws - flaws that have been and will continue to be detrimental to the American economy and our financial future if not reversed.
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American Economy
Detrimental
Dodd Frank
Effective
Provisions
Reversed
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The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.
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Federal Government
Gas
Oil
Opening
Accessible
Owned
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Many small businesses rely on small financial institutions, like credit unions and community banks, to meet their capital requirements. Without them, these small businesses would have to close their doors.
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Credit
Doors
Rely
Requirements
Banks
Capital
Small Businesses
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We have been fighting for solutions that will spur economic growth and create jobs for all Americans because we have been listening to what small business owners and employees have been telling us all along.
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Business Owners
Economic Growth
Owners
Small Business
Small Business Owners
Solutions
All Americans
Employees
Spur
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America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.
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Backgrounds
Common Language
Collection
Brings
Religions
Races
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Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.
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Jobs
Alone
Access
Critical
Crucial
Economic
Economic Recovery
Operations
Recovery
Small Business
Capital
Companies
Create
Expand
Small
Maintain
New Jobs
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Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.
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Creation
Health Care
Job Creation
Obstacles
Small Business
Addressing
Impediment
Removing
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Small business owners are experiencing great uncertainty because of the possibility of tax increases, the inconsistent flow of credit, an outrageous national debt, high energy costs, and overreaching federal regulations.
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Business Owners
Credit
Debt
Flow
High Energy
Inconsistent
National Debt
Outrageous
Owners
Possibility
Small Business
Small Business Owners
Uncertainty
Tax
Energy Costs
Experiencing
Federal
Regulations
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
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Look People Know
Look People Back
Businesses
Check
Pick
Sign
Subcommittee
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The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
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Assets
Hotel
Marketplace
Hotel Room
Rent
Resident
Sharing
Spare
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There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down wages for American workers - but the problem extends well beyond amnesty and open borders.
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American Workers
Amnesty
Benefits
Borders
Drawing
Illegal
Illegal Immigrants
Immigrants
Pushing
Wages
Welfare
Workers
Public Schools
Sending
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The fact that two-thirds of Americans who work at small businesses will see premium increases because of the health law is devastating news. This is one more in a long line of broken promises from President Obama and Washington Democrats.
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Broken
Broken Promises
News
Premium
President Obama
Obama
Businesses
Washington
Democrats
Devastating
Increases
Long Line
Promises
Small Businesses
Two-Thirds
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The SBA should be redirected to focus on its core missions of capital access, contracting, and counseling, while reducing duplication, overlap, and wasteful spending. Doing so will greatly improve its ability to better advocate for small businesses.
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Contracting
Core
Counseling
Duplication
Missions
Reducing
Wasteful Spending
Wasteful
Advocate
Capital
Greatly
Overlap
Small Businesses
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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Difficulty
Fitting
Models
Peg
Regimes
Status Quo
Established
Compete
Contemplate
Disrupt
Existing
Round
Hole
Newly
Quo
Regulatory
Square
Status
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The federal government spends nearly half a trillion dollars on contracted goods and services; therefore, we must ensure that the money is being spent efficiently, and small businesses have proven that they can do quality work cheaper and often faster.
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Quality
Government
Cheaper
Dollars
Faster
Federal Government
Goods
Half
Proven
Work Money Government
Nearly
Businesses
Contracted
Often
Efficiently
Ensure
Small
Services
Small Businesses
Spent
Therefore
Trillion
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Bringing buyers and sellers together through a single platform is not a new idea - most of us know about eBay's success - but with advancing technology comes new innovative methods for businesses to connect customers with those who want to offer services.
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Advancing
Buyers
Customers
Ebay
Innovative
Sellers
Bringing
Businesses
Connect
New Idea
Platform
Services
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In order to help small businesses gain access to the credit and capital they need to run their business successfully, Congress must adopt policies that support functional capital markets without imposing undue restrictions on providers of debt and equity capital.
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Credit
Debt
Equity
Imposing
Providers
Functional
Adopt
Capital
Gain
Markets
Policies
Restrictions
Small Businesses
Successfully
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
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Debt
Economy
Peeling
Steps
Tax
Addressing
Burdensome
Cloud
Ending
Hikes
Include
Regulations
Solution
Small Businesses
Threats
Unnecessarily
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The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.
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Employers
Federal Government
Hiring
Saving
Harming
Regulations
Rightly
Small Businesses
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Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.
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Aggression
Aggressive
All Time
Apologizing
Attacking
Bureaucrats
Epa
Administrator
Mccarthy
Reached
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The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.
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Innovators
Job Creators
Offers
Small Business
Benefit
Contract
Creators
Prices
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Activity
Peers
Established
Creates
Directly
Platform
Pose
Sharing
Wary
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There are over 20 federal agencies that provide some, or all, of the steps in the export process. This can paint a very confusing and intimidating picture for small companies who often don't have designated export officials or trade representatives on staff to navigate the process for their businesses.
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Confusing
Intimidating
Navigate
Officials
Paint
Representatives
Staff
Steps
Agencies
Export
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The RFA requires federal agencies to assess the economic impact of their regulations on small firms, and if significant, consider less burdensome alternatives. Federal agencies sometimes fail to comply at all, or simply 'check the box,' fulfilling the letter of the law, while missing the purpose of the law entirely.
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Alternatives
Fulfilling
Missing
Significant
Agencies
Assess
Burdensome
Check
Comply
Entirely
Letter
Regulations
Requires
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Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.
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Banking
Congress
Dollars
Oversight
Protect
Providing
Account
Banks
Businesses
Costly
Effective
Lend
Policies
Regulations
Small Businesses
Taxpayer
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