Young Oak Kim

I wish we were able to put in additional funds into the Restaurant Revitalization Fund.

It is really an honor and privilege to work with you in a very bipartisan way.

I look forward to hearing all of your testimonies today and I hope to work with my colleagues to find real solutions to support our small businesses.

However, we need to allow our small businesses to prosper instead of hamstringing them with the threat of higher taxes and more regulations.

As communities continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, small businesses can play an important role in providing viable pathways into the workforce.

Our country's greatest asset is our workforce.

Some parts of California are experiencing some of the highest average gas prices ever.

I represent southern California, and my home State of California has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country.

I am also proud to cosponsor Congresswoman Bass' Resolution on the conflict in Ethiopia which has claimed so many lives...

I stand in support of the en bloc being offered today, including Congresswoman Jacobs' resolution on Mozambique...

The Pacific Islands are incredibly important to the U.S. economic and strategic interest in promoting security and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific.

I joined the letter to President Biden urging the immediate renegotiation of COFA to support the Freely Associated States.

We do not need to move away from that public-private partnership model that has a track record of success

I saw firsthand the value that ESOPs bring to our communities.

In closing, I would like to thank Congressman Chabot for introducing this bill and for all of his work on behalf of the Cambodian people. I would also like to thank Congressman Bera for supporting this bill as the lead Democrat sponsor…

In closing, I want to thank the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutch) and the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Wilson) for their leadership on this bill, and I urge all Members to support this legislation. Madam Speaker, I yield back the…

The Department of State's rewards program serves an important purpose by turning the tables on dangerous foreign terrorists and human rights violators so they face the justice they so rightly deserve. I want to thank Dr. Foxx for her work…

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Unfortunately, many of these operations, especially charter flights, have met resistance from the State Department every turn.

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

The withdrawal from Afghanistan continues to be a disaster that has been worsened by this administration's response.