In my mind, every week should be National Small Business Week to honor the great work our entrepreneurs do in creating jobs and being the engine of our middle class and mainstream economy.

Thank you to all of you at the federal level that were able to provide us with funds. It was a life-saving box for us, so thank you.

But fortunately our country came together in a bipartisan way to provide immediate relief for struggling small businesses through programs like PPP.

So I am really glad that our witnesses took advantage of those PPP loans and were able to use it to keep your business open.

We are a nation of immigrants, and I know it is a very, very complex issue, but we encourage you to do whatever you can to make it fair and just for folks to come here and pursue whatever they feel they would like to.

I need your commitment now that your department will approve and provide transport for these people.

My office and other congressional offices have been working with a third party to evacuate civilians, people that this administration left behind.

Without basic support from the State Department, this country has made it very clear that everyone in this group will be sent back to Afghanistan to die at the hands of the Taliban.

If we do not do anything right now, even for another day, these people are in grave danger.

He served heroically and risked his life as a translator for the U.S. forces.

We left hundreds of Americans stranded behind enemy lines, abandoned our Afghan partners who fought by our side.