Kweisi Mfume

This, for lack of a better term, has scared the hell out of me.

That got my attention, and it will keep my attention.

This is designed--and again, I want to commend the Chair and the Ranking Member Ruiz for making sure that we move down a path together.

I just don't like that at all.

I am a bit appalled that this hearing now gets layered over with the issue of race in a very strong way.

I think we've got to pursue both of those paths if we are ever to get the truth.

Mr. Mfume. I vote aye.

So, my point here about content moderation on the front end prevents some of the crazy things we see on the back end.

We campaign in that kind of poetry, but we are elected to govern in prose.

I disassociate myself with her remarks when she said, as did the gentlewoman from Georgia, 'God bless Elon Musk.'

I would caution all Members that we are getting very close to witness intimidation, right on the verge of it.

Elijah always said: We can do better than this.

I think the last thing that I wanted this to degenerate into has been what it has been degenerated into.

I am speaking against this particular amendment and the one previous, Madam Chair, simply because as well intentioned as they may be, it strikes me that the date range being covered by both of these is from January 21, 2021, until the…

It is offensive to say that Democrats do not care about veterans.

We have got to find a way to get more people participating in the program.

If we don't enforce existing laws and policies, we will never get anywhere.

Your testimony has really shed some light on what is working and even what is not working within this program and the SBA, and the actions that Congress should, must, and hopefully will take to make this more efficient and effective.

I think it is up to the overall Committee, including the Chairman and I, to work on some of those, reduce the impact, negative impact for the most part, on our small businesses.

SBA has to do a better job of policing itself.

By amending the language of the Small Business Act, by expanding its scope, this legislation will give contractors that treat small businesses the right and the fair way, a greater chance at winning Federal contractors. And it will…

The gun laws that we hope will be passed today, I hope are seen as a beginning, not the end, only as a beginning.

The gun carnage that continues in schools, and supermarkets, and movie theaters, in churches, on the streets of my Baltimore, in the streets of cities all over this country is a cross, ladies and gentlemen, that we all bear whether we want…

This bill... will benefit contractors that interact with and treat small businesses in the right way.

It is imperative that we unite across the aisle to stand up for small business concerns.