If this is the kind of healthcare that we are proud of in the United States of America, well, some of us have some strong disagreements about that.

The American system has access to healthcare for everybody. It is called the emergency room.

the United States ranks 26th in terms of life expectancy.

We need to bring the Small Business Administration to its core mission.

We are also at looking at some of the standards from the hub zone as it relates to the address of the business.

What we need to do is start to look at public land to create incubators for these individuals.

We need money to really get the word out from a grassroots level that we are there, that we are competent.

It is extremely daunting to do business with government.

That creates a microeconomic stimulus plan, because now the money is circulating within our distressed communities.

We know that small businesses are the job creators.

We can also use this same concept in our at-risk communities because you are not going to have the startup costs.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Let me add my voice in thanking you and Ranking Member Meng, as well as the ranking member for the full Committee, Ms. Velazquez, for holding this field hearing in here in New York City.

I am really excited about the fact that under President Barack Obama... we are seeing that it might achieve the contracting goal of 23 percent for small businesses.

When some in the administration said that yes, they achieved the 23 percent, we discovered through investigations that those contracts were miscoded.

So the question is, is this a 21st century model?

Mr. President, I thank all of my friends who are speaking on the floor tonight for their continued commitment to not just bring attention to climate change, but to push for decisive action on the issue. As experts from around the world…

And yet, to combat this urgent public health crisis, in your budget you proposed cutting the Coast Guard drastically--the one agency that can protect our shorelines against this invasion of a health crisis that we are undergoing.

Your budget would put Coast Guard at a 5-year low in cocaine interdiction--a 5-year low.