{"id":1871658,"date":"2023-03-08T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defeating-dc-crime-bill-essential-for-small-business-survival-gop-chairman\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T11:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:45:36","slug":"defeating-dc-crime-bill-essential-for-small-business-survival-gop-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defeating-dc-crime-bill-essential-for-small-business-survival-gop-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeating DC crime bill essential for small-business survival: GOP chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdefeating-dc-crime-bill-essential-for-small-business-survival-gop-chairman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1871658&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78279808\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"'It's time to restore faith': Boy Meets World star Ben Savage running for Adam Schiff's House seat\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Ben Savage, the star of the popular '90s sitcom Boy Meets World, announced Monday that he is running for Congress in California's 30th Congressional District to succeed Rep. 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Williams stressed that such a code could harm local businesses, as it would perpetuate a monopoly. &#8220;lawless environment.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/house-democrats-decry-biden-for-dc-crime-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HOUSE DEMOCRATS BLAST BIDEN FOR DC CRIME BILL ABOUT-FACE<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Soft-on-crime policies have been devastating for small-business owners,&#8221; Williams said that he told the <i>Washington Examiner<\/i>. &#8220;When criminals&#8217; actions go unpunished, small businesses, their employees, and customers are the ones left behind. Public safety is a prerequisite for economic development, and we must ensure the people investing their time and money to run a business are not operating in a lawless environment.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<figure class=\"Figure mb-1 mb-sm-3 mb-md-1 article-lead-photo data_invisible\" data-align=\"center\" data-image-size=\"fixed\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div class=\"Figure-container\"> <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><\/source><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"1060\" height=\"707\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><\/source><source width=\"1060\" height=\"707\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><\/source>                                 <\/picture><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\" itemprop=\"caption\"> Rep. Roger Williams, R-TX, speaks at a panel discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference (Orlando, Florida) on Saturday, February 27, 2021.                <\/figcaption><div class=\"Figure-credit\" itemprop=\"author\"> Bloomberg\/Bloomberg via Getty Images                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local\/2023-off-to-violent-start-for-dc-with-crime-up-and-some-residents-worried\/3250357\/#:~:text=Compared%20to%20this%20time%20in,over%20this%20time%20in%202022.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crime rates have surged<\/a> in Washington over the last two years, several small businesses have struggled to stay afloat \u2014 forcing many to close their doors. Retail sector small business owners say that they&#8217;ve seen an increase in theft in the last year. This has forced them to raise their prices to compensate for financial loss. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Retail Industry Leaders Association, and the Buy Safe America Coalition, shoplifting resulted in more than $62 billion of lost sales, which led to 650,000 job losses. <\/p>\n<p>According to the, the state laws that govern how theft is handled allow for criminal rings to continue operating largely in the absence of consequences. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/economy\/small-retailers-report-increases-in-retail-theft-raise-prices-to-offset-losses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chamber of Commerce<\/a>. According to a survey conducted by Th, 75% of small business owners support increasing penalties for retail theft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read more from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/defeating-dc-crime-bill-essential-for-small-business-survival\">Defeating DC crime bill essential for small-business survival: GOP chairman<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE \u2014 THe Republican-led effort overturn the revised criminal code According to one top GOP lawmaker, Washington, D.C. is essential not only for public safety, but also for small business survival. Rep. Roger Williams Chairman of House Committee on Small Business (Republican-Texas), Tom Perez, applauded his GOP colleagues for helping to pass a bill. repeal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3879,7204,19483,13221,6203,20961,7845],"class_list":["post-1871658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-chairman","tag-crime","tag-defeating","tag-essential","tag-gop","tag-small-business","tag-survival"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}