Based on 56,000 respondents to its survey, 88 percent of the Department of Defense respondents found telework accommodations increased their overall productivity. This is not my imagination. This is how thousands and thousands of them…

Elijah always said: We can do better than this.

I stand here in full support of the passage of S. 1942, the National Heritage Area Act, which includes provisions from my bill, the Baltimore National Heritage Area Act, and creates a full reauthorization of the Baltimore National Heritage…

Mr. MFUME. Mr. Mfume votes aye.

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.

This is really about people over politics today, and I am glad that people all over the country are watching and listening to this debate. It is not about the wealthy, the well-connected, and the well-off. It is about people who believe…

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.

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.

I particularly thank the chair for yielding this time but also for her very important leadership on the Committee on Small Business and for the excellence of her example--getting all of us to the point of where we are today. At a time…

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.

What we can't defer is what is happening in terms of the health of Americans as a result of an enlarging carbon footprint.

The Congress has helped the Postal Service fill its coffers with billions of dollars in the last few years.

Which sounds like fuzzy math to me when you have the numbers to prove that they are, and then you almost deny those numbers.

If there was any shortfall, there is none now.

I want to thank you and Representative Connolly specifically for your work in this ongoing effort to try to make sense of what I consider to be a nonsensical position of Mr. DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service.

This issue, quite frankly, is one of racial hatred, and I don't know any other way to put that.