María Elvira Salazar

Absolutely. This cannot happen and I thank you very much for sharing this testimony.

the federal government's fault.

small businesses are critical to our nation's security, innovation, and the economy.

we have lost over one-third of our small contractors in less than 10 years.

I promised my constituents in District 27 that one of my goals from this office... was to make thousands of small business owners vendors of the federal government.

We need to act now to stop this axis and we at the federal level need to figure out what is happening.

the federal procurement environment has become so hostile to new small businesses that they just do not even try.

The decline of small business federal contractors to inflate directly to healthy competition and innovation.

I am very embarrassed; I am very upset and because the United States is not present in this hemisphere, period.

Speaker Pelosi is not willing to bring it to the floor.

Not only we have abandoned these people, the Biden Administration has abandoned these people.

And like Representative Sires just said, we passed a law called RENACER.

Did you guys call the IMF and say, 'No, we cannot do that'?

It burns like acid on our skin, and I just want to share that with you.

tenant self-attestation has proven to be incredibly helpful to expedite the delivery of rental assistance.

the residents of Oregon are still waiting for disaster recovery dollars from last year's historic and tragic wildfires.

Obama lifted the policy of isolation for two and a half years and the Castro regime did not respond.

Libertad. Freedom. Abajo la dictadura. Down with the dictatorship. These are the calls we are hearing from the people of Cuba. They have taken to the streets demanding the end of the Castro tyranny. We see the American flag waving on the…

The Cuban government, I do not think, is interested in lifting the embargo.

In the meantime, the Cubans are on the street and no one is paying attention including the Biden Administration.

So everything is the embargo. But then if you are telling me that he does not even know what's happening in Cuba. So that means that they do not care what's happening.

I am not being histrionic. I am just speaking for thousands of people who feel what I am telling you.

That is grotesque. It is embarrassing.

Latin America's dictators exploit their children just like they exploit their own people. The best example is Nicaragua's dictator, Daniel Ortega. Ortega leads his corrupt, oppressive, dictatorial regime along with his wife and Vice…

I would love to work across the aisle and make this a reality for all Americans.