Carolyn Bourdeaux

One estimate is that 53 percent of veterans do not know what career they want to pursue when they transition back to becoming civilians.

For the American service men and women, the transition to civilian life can be difficult, especially so if they struggle to find a purpose upon return.

We need to restructure for the long haul as opposed to just give short shots of funding.

My bill would encourage partnerships and collaboration between the Federal Government, industry, labor organizations, and State and local governments.

It is clear from today's testimony that more work needs to be done to ensure that, in the long term, we have a supply chain that is resilient, and can be flexible to global incidents.

Georgia has a long history of undermining the right to vote, from the Jim Crow-era tactics of poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests, to more recent tactics of voter-roll purges, exact-match policies, and partisan gerrymandering.

Georgia was one of the first States in the country to pass a voter suppression bill after the 2020 general election, but S.B. 202 is just our State's latest attempt to disenfranchise minority communities. Georgia has a long history of…

It is my hope that this program will enable more immigrant-owned businesses to get the information and resources that they need to help them recover and prosper in the years to come.

Will you commit to work with the affected stakeholders to limit the scope and impact of this credit policy as much as possible and ensure fair outcomes for our small business contractors?

The current Federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2009 and at $7.25 an hour it amounts to just around $15,000 per year.

More than doubling the current Federal minimum wage over the next 5 years, we are asking small businesses to really bear the entire burden.

I firmly believe that we do need to raise the minimum wage in this country to get it to a living wage.

Minority-owned businesses and small mom and pop shops have been hit extremely hard by the economic effects of the pandemic, and this is why the bill provides critical assistance to businesses with 10 employees or less.

This bill with the $25 billion allocated for restaurants through the Restaurant Revitalization Fund ensures that restaurants can sustain jobs that can be there waiting for them after we defeat the COVID-19 pandemic.

A lot of the Black, other minority owned businesses were having to pay back the loans, whereas some of our White businesses seemed to be more likely to be able to find ways to get the loans forgiven.

I teach a civics class where I point out that our democracy is not self-executing. It requires people of good faith and ethics to make it work. The President has repeatedly challenged Georgia's election results. But, despite three recounts…

It is pretty shocking. The efforts that the Republicans are going to to undermine the elections in Georgia and really undermine our democracy.