WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. John Kennedy issued the following press release:
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, introduced a bill to prevent the U.S. Treasury Department from unnecessarily collecting small business owners' personal information.
"When an obscure government policy requires small business owners to fork over personal data that even our government admits it doesn't need, it's time to change that policy. That's why I'm leading the bill to permanently end this burdensome mandate and keep law-abiding Americans' personal information out of a database it should never have been in," said Kennedy.
Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), She...