Ben Cardin

As chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee, I know that the ERC was vital in helping small businesses across the country retain their workforce and keep their doors open during the pandemic.

We can work together to make the tax code more understandable and fairer for small businesses

I urge you to invest in good people, continue to invest in good people, and do everything you can to increase the morale within the workforce.

I think we, in Congress, have to take responsibility for that, because we're the ones who developed the rules.

We have to make sure that everyone understands the rules through the audit process.

Weighed in on to do exactly that: to be a consumer-friendly agency

We know that those of higher incomes have found ways to bend those rules, and that has to end.

Everyone should believe they're being treated fairly under our system, but that's no longer the case.

I have two requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

Just please keep us informed as to how those funds are being utilized. We appreciate it.

What else can we do to show that we are doing everything we can to protect against the growth of this type of an organization?

I have been actually briefed on some of the evidence that has actually been obtained.

We should make it clear through Magnitsky sanctions.

Do you need any further guidance or support from--by congressional action?

My concern is will we have a mechanism that will allow the international community to observe that accountability is actually being pursued, such as like the Nuremburg trials after World War II.

I want to follow up on Chairman Menendez's last point first and that is accountability.

There must be accountability and accountability without prosecutions is not accountability.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 5:41 p.m., adjourned until Monday, December 12, 2022, at 3 p.m. ____________________

We are very proud of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. It is to modernize infrastructure in America.

We got complaints from our traditional allies. They think we are moving too quickly, and they won't be able to compete with us.

Without a doubt, there is more we can do on outreach.

For the information of the Senate, there will be a rollcall vote at approximately 4 p.m. today on passage of S.J. Res. 63, related to the national emergency declared by the President on March 13, 2020.

Is it time to end the Minsk Group?

We need Georgia to be on a path to integration in Europe and we have to make that absolutely abundantly clear.

I will back her up any day of the week.