This bill bypasses regulatory oversight for venture businesses and puts its decisions in the hands of unqualified insiders. A business with over a hundred investors is not a small business, and so this does little, if nothing, to help encourage business growth. Instead, it encourages corruption and disregard for the law among larger businesses already reaching market demand.

Wall st & venture capitalists need more regulation, not less.

This is fucking ridiculous. Shame on anyone who votes in favor of this. Its just more loopholes for larger companies.

It's hard to not be sarcastic posting these messages.

We need more regulations in the financial sector to make sure people are not being taken advantage of.

Only in a world controlled by lunatics does this make any sense. In the real world of citizens & the global economy, it is pure folly. Given the enormous power of large amounts of money have in the US economy, to let more financial organizations operate without adequate regulation is to give a free hand to evil: greed for power & money never end well for anyone but the people who amass the most of both. Don't any of the Members have enough storage space left in what we euphemistically refer to as your brains to remember the financial disaster of 2008? Do we really need another financial meltdown to make you feel like you have served your already financially insecure constituents? I survived the last financial meltdown because I'm fortunate enough to own my home outright & had adequate financial resources to not have been forced into bankruptcy. I'm single & retired so I could cut my grocery bill by 80%, forego all medical appointments that involved a copay, turn off my AC & sweat through 3 Florida summers, quit driving except for absolute necessity & basically go to ground for 3 years. It wasn't fun. Mostly it makes me hate all of you who support the type of financial idiocy that it brought about. You are courting it again. I would rather vote for a cat than any of you fools! I encourage everyone I know to do the same! CATS ROCK! (You don't)

Helping small businesses and start ups is wonderful but why allow VCs to skirt regulations?

This bill makes loopholes far too accessible.

This is just a way for people to shelter money and encourage predatory venture capitalism

Another attempt to end run existing laws that regulate venture capitalists and their impact on the economy. It is a bad idea.

Over 100 investors is not a VC. This is just another loop hole for big companies.

The investment markets have repeatedly proven that they cannot exist without adequate supervision. We need more small organizations, not more businesses giants.

Reckless

I don't trust any of the slime on Wall Street

I need more input as to exactly why the increase from 100 to 500. Looks like a back door way of closing small VC Institutions? Who may seek higher returns on investment capital while allowing fledgling companies a chance to provide the public with new products.

Hell no!

NEVER AGAIN. We got screwed once. I want ALL PRECAUTIONS TO BE IN PLACE , so they don't get away )through some loophole) we dont get fucked over again. Just my opinion