The Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and Global Counterterrorism will come to order.

I am glad to see the Restoring Brand USA Act on the docket today that I introduced with my friend Peter Welch.

This is a sound solution that protects consumers online, while also protecting the private information of small online entrepreneurs.

The Biden administration's message to many Americans is that we may not receive our Christmas and holiday gifts this year on time because of the supply chain issues.

That is why I have introduced a bipartisan bill, the MADE in America Act, manufacturing aids to pharmaceuticals and drugs and excipients here in America.

First, I want to reemphasize my sincerity and thanks to you, Madam Chair, for H.R. 4594, the Restoring Brand USA Act.

We have known for a long time that we were too dependent on other countries for our PPE, for our drugs, and the pharmaceutical ingredients.

This legislation will release the dollars already collected for the Brand USA program to help return our travel and tourism industry back to its former glory.

I hope that we will get the opportunity to look at that bill, and I hope we will get the opportunity to call that bill up.

This legislation will create a uniform national standard to provide consumers with clarity, transparency, and enhanced protections from malicious actors online who look to pawn stolen goods or sell dangerous counterfeits.

I want to commend my friend, the chair of the committee, Chairwoman Schakowsky, for her leadership on the INFORM Consumers Act and working with me to reach a strong bipartisan agreement.

This was an easy bipartisan win for our committee last Congress, so there is no reason we cannot get this bill across the finish line again this year.

I want to commend my friend Chair Schakowsky for her leadership on the INFORM Consumers Act and working with me to reach a strong bipartisan agreement.

we have lost over one-third of our small contractors in less than 10 years.

The decline of small business federal contractors to inflate directly to healthy competition and innovation.

We need to act now to stop this axis and we at the federal level need to figure out what is happening.

the federal government's fault.

small businesses are critical to our nation's security, innovation, and the economy.