FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 4^th, 2011

Erik's Correspondence Corner: Helping Small Businesses & Medicare Reform

Washington, D.C. – In this week’s installment of  “Erik’s Correspondence Corner” video series, Representative Erik Paulsen (MN-03) directly responds to  questions on expanding access to credit for American small businesses, and Medicare reform.

Dixie, a small business owner from Excelsior sent in a Facebook post asking Rep. Paulsen about expanding access to credit for small businesses in her community. Earlier this week, Rep. Paulsen held a Telephone Town Hall meeting for seniors in his district. Nearly 15,000 constituents joined the Representative on the call. Cindy from Plymouth, Dan from Coon Rapids, Carole from Mound, and Leonard from Greenfield, were among the many who asked the question, In what areas will you work to reduce fraud in Medicare?

View the video response here.

Each week, Representative Paulsen receives thousands of letters, emails, tweets, Facebook posts, and phone calls from constituents voicing their opinions. Through this video series, Representative Paulsen will regularly respond to constituent correspondence on a variety of topics.

Paulsen, a champion of small business and advocate of free enterprise, entrepreneurship, and innovation currently serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, and is co-chair of the Congressional U.S.–Korea Free Trade Working Group.

For more information on Rep. Paulsen’s work in Congress, and for past segments of  Erik's Correspondence Corner, please visit www.paulsen.house.gov.

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