This proposal is using the bank failures from earlier this year as a weak justification for this partisan rewrite of bank capital regulations without considering their impact.

I thank Mr. Hoyer for his leadership and for his belief in and commitment to our country. As the proud representative of Region 6, which is Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, I join my colleagues in recognizing the transformative laws that we…

I am proud to support H.R. 5426, which will require the SBA to place a visible link on their website to the Office of the Inspector General page where individuals can easily report potentially fraudulent EIDL and PPP loans.

These proposed changes will dramatically affect the banking community, and there is a legitimate concern that Basel revisions will have a broad impact on small businesses' ability to access reliable credit.

U.S. banking standards much more stringent than the standards European regulators are imposing on European banks...

The SBA Rural Performance Report Act will create more transparency between rural small business owners and the SBA's Office of Rural Affairs.

I was hoping we would be marking up a bill to put guardrails back on the SBA's flagship 7(a) lending program.

The Basel III proposal will worsen mortgage markets and reduce mortgage availability.

It is simply wrong that criminals who are convicted of defrauding the government can then turn around and receive once again taxpayer funded assistance from the SBA.

I am proud that we are finding solutions to hold the criminals accountable who took advantage of small business lending programs during the pandemic.

I urge all of my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back.

Competition is a key tenet of capitalism. It allows consumers to choose with their dollars between businesses that will offer the best product, the best price or service.

Small businesses are the engines of our economy, and we need to produce policies that will help them, not regulate them into oblivion like this administration is doing.

It is the responsibility of this Committee to be main street's voice in Congress, and that is exactly what we are here to do today.

small business across the country have faced underserved hardship for quite some time now thanks to the Biden administration's misguided economic policies.

The Main Street Competes Act will ensure small businesses are able to compete in the marketplace against larger businesses.

This bill provides common sense accountability by ensuring that people who abused SBA's loan programs are no longer eligible for financial assistance from the SBA.

There is no question that China is a hostile nation towards the United States and that their goal is to weaken our country in any way possible.