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On September 23, 2010, Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) spoke out on the house floor on H.R. 5297, the Small Business Lending Fund Act of 2010. Ranking Member Graves called the bill a missed opportunity to help small businesses around the country that are in desperate need of less regulation and more certainty about the future.

Ranking Member Sam Graves on how the federal goverment's unstable policies of bailouts, skyrocketing federal spending, and record national debt have had a devastating effect on small businesses across the country.

Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) on his support for an amendment to H.R. 5297 that would allows small banks to amortize losses or write-downs on commercial real estate loans to increase the availability of credit for small business.

On June 16, 2010 Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) spoke out on the House Floor on his opposition to H.R. 5297, the Small Business Lending Fund Act. In his speech Ranking Member Graves stated that there is no guarantee that small businesses will benefit from the funding in the bill. And that the Administration and the Majority in the House continue to rely on unsustainable borrowing and spending to keep things running.