Jobs & Economy

As a former small business owner, I know how tough it can be to ride the waves the economy sends our way. The pandemic sent a tide that reverberated throughout the entire country, and Washington policies have made life harder, not better, for American businesses and workers.
My priority as your Representative is to identify solutions that will get Americans back to work and create lasting benefits to U.S. economic competitiveness. This includes cutting down regulatory red tape that burdens businesses and pushing back against mandates and policies that would eliminate worker freedom and impose a federal minimum wage on small businesses.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) issued the following statement after introducing the Interstate Commerce Simplification Act. This bill would prevent states from applying their income tax to businesses who sell goods or services into a state but otherwise have no physical presence there.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) issued the following statement after voting to pass H.R. 2799, the Expanding Access to Capital Act.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05), Congressman Brad Sherman (CA-32), Congressman Juan Vargas (CA-52), and Congresswoman Young Kim (CA-39) co-introduced the
Publicly traded companies play an important role in building savings and wealth of millions of Wisconsinites. Even individuals who do not actively invest in the stock market have skin in the game through retirement accounts.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) introduced the Performance over Politics Act to protect retail investors from repeat ESG proposals from activist shareholders of publicly traded companies.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) issued the following statement after the Supreme Court of the United States released its decision to stay the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with over 100 employees.
WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, Congressman Fitzgerald joined 178 of his Senate and U.S. House of Representatives Republican colleagues in filing an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in opposition to the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate requiring private employers with over 100 employees to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine or weekly testing.
By Congressmen Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) and Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03)
WASHINGTON, DC – This month, Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) co-introduced legislation to prohibit the Small Business Administration (SBA) from directly making loans under the 7(a) loan program alongside Ranking Member Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03) and all of his Republican Small Business Committee colleagues.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) issued the following statement after Democrats voted to take the first step in passing their multi-trillion-dollar budget reconciliation and passed their partisan infrastructure bill which spends only a fraction of funds on fixing roads, bridges, and major projects that the American people generally consider