It would also account for other situations like here, where Mr. Paoletta was responsible for responding to the public in Congressional inquiries about his own involvement in illegally holding up aid to Ukraine.

Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Luetkemeyer and Chairwoman Velazquez for their leadership on the Small Business Committee. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of my legislation, H.R. 6450, the SCORE for Small Business Act of 2022. This…

Small businesses that you represent are facing many economic headwinds with supply chain disruptions, record-setting inflation numbers, and increase in gas prices.

I want to talk about the recent report of the Office of the Inspector General that some loans totaling $66.4 billion that SBA did not meet the 90-day statutory requirement to remit the forgiveness payments to lenders.

On Earth Day this year, President Biden said--I love this quote--'One of the things I found out as President of the United States, I get to spend a lot of that money. We are going to start the process where every vehicle in the United…

With all due respect, Mr. McCord, that is nuts.

We are spending more and yet we got half the ships and half the planes we had in 1985. This is unacceptable.

I appreciate that.

I want to applaud you for that and applaud your commitment to that. I think that is the right thing to do as Americans.

I was a little bit surprised that he was criticizing you, Mr. MacLennan, for having a program to seek Black farmers.

We thank Rep. Gooden (TX-5) and Rep. Khanna for sponsoring this bill.

I happen to agree with Ronald Reagan that defense is not a budget issue. You spend what you need to spend in order to protect the country.

So, you would place the climate in the same category as China or the national debt.

Countries that bankrupt themselves aren't around very long.

the situation at the border is an unmitigated disaster, and it is about to get a whole lot worse potentially.

I feel like we're investing in some archaic designs, archaic technologies that frankly have proven that they can't meet the demands, and I haven't heard how we're going to address our dependency on China, our dependency on Russia.

We're seeing gasoline prices in California that has a lot of gasoline within its borders and underneath its ground, lots of oil reserves at $6 to $6.50 a gallon.

I haven't heard where we've made cuts. I haven't heard what programs have been sacrificed so that we can pay the programs that are needed or where synergies or efficiencies have been gained in the last year and a half to 2 years out of DOE…