This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.