But listen, I will give you some of these questions for the record, to let you familiarize yourself, particular with the District Court's opinion in the D.C. case, which I think is a really important one.

As Ranking Member of the Small Business Committee, it is an honor to work alongside my colleagues to create commonsense policies that uplift our nation's small businesses.

Small businesses are the life blood of our communities.

COVID-19 devastated small businesses with overreaching State and local shutdown measures and altered capacity restrictions.

Small business owners like you are the drivers of the United States' economy and workforce.

Do you think that parties who come before you can expect and anticipate and have confidence that you will be a politically neutral arbiter?

Whether that is a church, or in this case, not a Christian or Jewish congregation but an entirely different religions, if they uniquely burden or disproportionately burden that religious entity then they are unconstitutional.

Let me tell you about this heroic and selfless young man.

the Federal emergency rental assistance funding that we fought so hard for on this committee is continuing to reach those who are in need.

I would ask my colleagues to remember we need to be looking at ways to be helpful to small businesses here.

All this is going to do is speed up consolidation of small businesses and farms.

I think the gentleman has correctly stated the problems that he is trying to solve here that he sees.

This is another one we think is very important to be able to understand the effects of the tax increases in this huge monstrosity of a bill here, with regards to the impact on small businesses and their employees and their employers.

I think we need to understand the impacts of the defund the police, of the restriction of funds to the police with regards to how it's affecting our small businesses.

I think we need to make sure that we keep the dollars out of the wrong people's hands.

inflation is eating away at the very heart of our economy.

This is a bill that will tell us a whole lot about where you really stand, especially when it comes to the bipartisanship.

I support the gentleman from New York's amendment here. I think it is important that we prioritize how we are going to be funding the different needs that are out there with regards to our country and our small businesses.