"we saw, when we responded to the pandemic, how the big banks who were handling the PPP program took care of their concierge clients and left our small businesses and our minority businesses basically ..."
"we have $12 billion that we have put together. I worked with Mr. Warner to do that, and of that $12 billion, $1.25 billion has been given out already, and the rest will go through the Treasury Departm..."
"I asked Facebook to immediately pause its work until regulators and Congress had an opportunity to review the project."
"I invited Mark Zuckerberg to testify at a hearing where we scrutinized their plans."
"It is so timely, it is so important, and I thank you for your leadership."
"One of the things that I believe in is that we have to do more to help our small businesses know about CDFIs, MDIs, and the resources that we are allocating to them so that they can have access to the..."
"I would like to know more about incubators. I believe that we need a lot of incubators."
"Do you think that Chairwoman Beatty and I should try and put together direct funding of some kind to develop more incubators?"
"What I have discovered is we don't have enough-- many of our small businesses that are involved in pre-bid conferences to understand what the opportunities are for contracting."
"I am absolutely upset, and I am unhappy about the lack of progress that some of our cities are making despite the fact that we are doing everything that we can to get the resources to them."
"I want to hear what these obstacles are, because I am not pleased at all, and we have to move the homeless off the street, and I think we can all do a better job."
"I am so worried, however, that this growing political movement by these anti-vaccine activists and pro-Trump Republicans, it's undermining their work."