Political Quotes

“I now ask that we act on the preamble. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate? If not, the question is on agreeing to the preamble. The preamble was agreed to. The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows: S. Res. 197 Whereas the approximately 27,200,000 small business concerns in the United States are the driving force behind the Nation's economy, creating 2 out of every 3 new jobs and generating more than 50 percent of the Nation's non-farm gross domestic product; Whereas small businesses are the driving force behind the economic recovery of the United States; Whereas small businesses represent 99.7 percent of employer firms in the United States; Whereas small business concerns are the Nation's innovators, serving to advance technology and productivity; Whereas small business concerns represent 97.6 percent of all exporters and produce 32.8 percent of exported goods; Whereas Congress established the Small Business Administration in 1953 to aid, counsel, assist, and protect the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve free and competitive enterprise, to ensure that a fair proportion of the total Federal Government purchases, contracts, and subcontracts for property and services are placed with small business concerns, to ensure that a fair proportion of the total sales of government property are made to such small business concerns, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the United States; Whereas every year since 1963, the Pres…”