risk management is their top priority for those farmers, and we must continue to strengthen our farm safety net.

it is extremely important to have these protections in place.

Tomorrow, April 28, is Workers Memorial Day, a day unions and others, here and around the globe, remember those who have been killed, injured, and diseased on the job.

These final rules threaten to drastically change the SBA's flagship small business lending program.

We need to protect the taxpayers against fraud. We want to make sure that the dollars are going to those small business entities that are truly deserving and need those resources.

So, yes, I don't want you to leave Mr. Shoemaker, or Shoemaker, without feeling you have gotten a fair shot at discussion today.

Okay. So, you--and you are saying here today you will not be seeking loan forgiveness as SBA for EIDL loans under $100,000.

Nor in the PPP?

It is really disheartening to many of us on this committee, as we saw in a bipartisan manner, where numbers of our committee members raised issue with the proposed rules.

I would rather not revisit that.

So, yes, I don't want you to leave Mr. Shoemaker, or Shoemaker, without feeling you have gotten a fair shot at discussion today.

We need to protect the taxpayers against fraud. We want to make sure that the dollars are going to those small business entities that are truly deserving and need those resources.

Nor in the PPP?

Okay. So, you--and you are saying here today you will not be seeking loan forgiveness as SBA for EIDL loans under $100,000.

These final rules threaten to drastically change the SBA's flagship small business lending program.

I would rather not revisit that.

It is really disheartening to many of us on this committee, as we saw in a bipartisan manner, where numbers of our committee members raised issue with the proposed rules.

I see President Biden refusing to even enter a negotiation room with Speaker McCarthy.