Rand Paul

But they were ruled illegal by the Small Business Administration, and you are reversing that policy...

Three million people have died from this pandemic. And that should cause us to explore all possibilities.

Navy Fireman 2nd Class Martin Daymond Young, born on May 11, 1920, was one of nine children who grew up in a busy household in the tiny Dukes community in Hancock County, KY. His family said their goodbyes when he enlisted in the Navy in…

During Memorial Day weekend in my home community, a fleet of cars will depart a local funeral home and make the 25-mile trip to Merry Oaks United Methodist Church Cemetery in neighboring Smiths Grove, KY. This will be the final leg of a…

There`s not a shred of truth to any of the self- mitigation, distancing, all the things they`ve told us, none of them is there any evidence that any of it has worked to mitigate. The only thing that has slowed down the virus has been the…

It sounds like a confusing smorgasbord to try to figure this out.

Oh it is coming, though. It is coming soon, right?

The U.S. Government should admit that the Wuhan Virology Institute was experimenting to enhance the coronavirus' ability to infect humans.

You are fooling with Mother Nature here. You are allowing super viruses to be created with a 15 percent mortality.

Can you imagine if a SARS virus that has been juiced up and had viral proteins added to it, to the spike protein, if that were released accidentally?

We do not know whether the pandemic started in a lab in Wuhan or evolved naturally, but we should want to know.

If you want more people to get vaccinated, Joe Biden should go on national TV, take his mask off and burn it, light a torch to it and burn his mask and say, I’ve had the vaccine, I have now saved from this plague. If you’ll get the vaccine…

Some would say that the failure of an SBA nominee to be transparent about taxpayer funded programs under this Committee's jurisdiction would be disqualifying in and of itself.

But not if you say well, we are not going to put down how much our estimated loss.

I think that is what we think. The requirement for the estimated loss, we think, comes from the EIDL loan application.

But that is why you need to give us information and not try to hide things from us.

So let the record show that you will not answer the question and you will not tell us the amount that you put on the application that you signed your name to for your company on how much U.S. dollars were estimated you were going to lose.

I think it appears to us as if you are hiding something about the loan.

So the thing is--and that is beside the point. We now know you had the PPP loan, you paid it back.

Most people would read that and it sounds to them like you are expanding into Guadalajara, that you have new enterprises and new partners.

But you did not volunteer that. We had to drag that out of you when we had evidence that you had the loan.

The more transparent you are, the more we believe in the things you are saying.

I began my tenure as ranking member of this Committee by supporting Administrator Guzman's nomination in a good faith effort to establish an honest and transparent working relationship with the Biden administration and my colleagues across…

I mean, we deserve to know that because you are going to be in charge of these. You got $14 million in the midst of this.

I look forward to hearing from Mr. Syed. I still have an open mind on the nomination, but I hope that he will today provide some clarity and transparency on the information that has been repeatedly denied to the Committee.