Ben Cardin actually said...

"The policies championed by Senate Democrats in the Paycheck Protection Program made later rounds of the Paycheck Protection Program more equitable and accessible for underserved communities."

"The past 18 months of COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that women entrepreneurs still face many structural barriers when they start, operate, and attempt to grow small businesses."

"We are going to make that one of the major centers of our Build Back Better budget that we are working on right now."

"We, in Congress, are looking at following President Biden's leadership to advance these values but we need to have in country the capacity to deliver on that."