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It is very important that there are guardrails in place to businesses that get these loans.

In 2023, this program alone lent over $27 billion to main street businesses.

Now, when the SBA changed the 7a lending rules, Members of this committee repeatedly voice their concerns that changing the underwriting standards would lead to increased default rates.

The SBA is supposed to be the lender of last resort and not compete with the private sector.

I have learned in my time here that anytime there is a bill that basically is apple pie and puppy dogs and everything that we should really look into what is going on into this bill.

I just do not think that is worth it to kill the bill when there is so many people that are absolutely seeking to stay.

I honestly do not do things to message and go home. I will be clear that I have essentially won my reelection.

This is about people that are serving our government and the fact that we are debating whether or not we will support people that are supporting and serving the United States.

This affects less than 1 percent of our military... there are a whole lot of things we can do that would better help our military.

Simply put: the American people pay $5.60 per flight for security-- all of it should go to security.

I am firmly against the diversion and recognize the need for Congress to engage this issue more thoughtfully.

This is simply unacceptable.

I am less confident, however, in TSA's development and deployment of new technology.

This is why companies have a very hard time when operating outside of Texas, and why America is hurting, because we have to do better than this.

I will also ask if your office would commit to getting these people back to working full-time to alleviate some of these numbers.

So, we need to make sure that we do continue to move forward and just get better and work harder, because they are drastically behind.

This common-sense fix will allow operators to pay the correct amount of royalties up front.

This pipeline is an essential project to our country's domestic supply of oil and gas.