Melissa Bean famous quotes

03-28-2025

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.
-- Melissa Bean

#Love #Marriage #Couple
If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.
-- Melissa Bean

#Simple #Accountability #Want
The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
-- Melissa Bean

#Responsibility #Past #People
I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.
-- Melissa Bean

#Mother #Daughter #Teenager
I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.
-- Melissa Bean

#Mom #Jobs #Husband
Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.
-- Melissa Bean

#Democracy #Engagement #Electorate
The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out.
-- Melissa Bean

#Party #Important #Balance
Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.
-- Melissa Bean

#Hands #Data #Numbers
Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.
-- Melissa Bean

#Children #Illinois #Quality
In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.
-- Melissa Bean

#Jobs #Community #Growth
Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.
-- Melissa Bean

#Choices #Desire #Tvs
Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.
-- Melissa Bean

#Country #Preparation #Irs
Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need.
-- Melissa Bean

#Country #Community #Needs
When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique.
-- Melissa Bean

#Real #Unique #Technology
Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.
-- Melissa Bean

#Credit #Cards #Small Business
During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.
-- Melissa Bean

#Fall #Iraq #Air
My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace.
-- Melissa Bean

#Work #Team #Unique
Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.
-- Melissa Bean

#Stars #Home #Agency
As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.
-- Melissa Bean

#Fighting #Effort #Identity
By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills.
-- Melissa Bean

#Choices #Competition #Bills
Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.
-- Melissa Bean

#Data #Information #Selling
Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.
-- Melissa Bean

#Identity #Growing #Crime
Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
-- Melissa Bean

#Giving Up #Rights #Privacy
As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.
-- Melissa Bean

#Impact #House #Mind Your Own Business
We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.
-- Melissa Bean

#Stress #Community #Proud
But in Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.
-- Melissa Bean

#Responsibility #Accountability #Demand

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