today, I would like to extend best wishes to the former Senator from New York, James L. Buckley. One hundred years ago today, on the 9th of March, Jim was born the fourth of 10 children, just as the Roaring '20s were getting underway. As…

I look forward to passing meaningful legislation that will support small businesses and allow them to do what they do best, which is to create jobs and support our local communities.

I am truly honored, I am humbled, and excited to serve as Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee.

I want to start my questions off by addressing the issues from the last Congress, and where so many of us got really concerned with some of the loans that were made.

I look forward to passing meaningful legislation that will support small businesses and allow them to do what they do best, which is to create jobs and support our local communities.

about 20 million people a year visit our Nation's Capital, Washington, DC. They come to see our hallowed Capitol, DC's inspiring monuments and museums, and to experience the city's lively melting pot of cultures. As we have seen across…

I believe it is both this Committee's and the SBA's responsibility to ensure that they are not hamstrung by unnecessary red tape.

I want to start my questions off by addressing the issues from the last Congress, and where so many of us got really concerned with some of the loans that were made.

I believe it is both this Committee's and the SBA's responsibility to ensure that they are not hamstrung by unnecessary red tape.

We just did a roundtable on Title II conservation for the farm bill. I did that in Iowa this last weekend.

I am truly honored, I am humbled, and excited to serve as Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee.

We can have productive processes to have mechanical thinning, to have prescribed burns, and to reduce wildfire risks.

Needless to say things must change.

The delayed process postpones--in other words when appropriators and authorizers can commence hearings to review agency spending.

Adopting a budget was once considered an essential part of good governance. Now it's barely an afterthought.

Unfortunately, President Biden and Senate leadership are uninterested in getting back to regular order, or addressing our dire fiscal outlook.

We just did a roundtable on Title II conservation for the farm bill. I did that in Iowa this last weekend.

If you could address this. Is there a role for derivative markets to facilitate carbon reduction and the risks associated for those individuals?