WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, Congressman Roger Williams (R-TX), Chairman of the House Committee on Small Business, introduced a bipartisan resolution reaffirming Congress’s support for Small Business Saturday and the vital role Main Street plays in powering the American economy.

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Matthew Foldi

November 30, 2025

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In Congress, Rep. Roger Williams (R., Texas) — the chairman of the House Committee on Small Business — added his voice to the chorus of Republicans who urged Americans to “support your local small businesses and shop on Main Street.”

Williams, who has run a small business himself as a car dealer for almost 60 years, previously told the Washington Reporter in an interview ahead of Small Business Week that “everything Trump is doing is geared towards small business.”

Now, Williams added that “small businesses are the heartbeat of the American economy, making up over 99 percent of all businesses in America. From corner stores to coffee shops, I am honored to be a voice for the over 36 million small businesses that create jobs and drive economic growth.”

The Texas lawmaker added that he is eager to “celebrate the entrepreneurs who serve communities across our country.” One of the “unheard of” ways that Williams told the Reporter that he wants to do that is by implementing a Texas-style bounty system, where Americans can win commissions by highlighting the fraud from Biden-era COVID loans.

“Let’s empower everybody to find this money,” Williams — who spent decades working on commission in the auto industry — previously said. “We’re not going to find $220 billion, but let’s just say we found $50 million…That’s taxpayers’ money, it’s your money and it’s my money. People made a deal. They said they’d pay this stuff back, then pay it back. And so I’m all over that, and that’s what we’re doing.”

“If you’ll find money that is missing, and you bring it back, the Treasury will pay 10 percent of what you found, and if it comes back from China, we’ll pay you 15 percent,” Williams explained earlier this year.

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