Dean Phillips

Owners act differently than employees. They reuse paper clips and they turn off the lights when they leave the office.

Due to attendance at a Foreign Affairs classified briefing, I missed rollcall No. 284. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 284.

I don't think I have ever seen a witness use that 5 minutes to such perfection in my career in Congress.

Moments ago, stories were told of immigrants coming to this country with big dreams, and that is exactly what the United States is all about.

We have your backs and, rest assured, despite what you all see on TV screens at night, we are unified on Small Business Committee to supporting you.

I think it is important for Members of Congress on a bipartisan basis to sit together and listen together to the issues that are facing so many in our country.

I will now yield to Representative Newman to introduce our first witness.

Thank you to my colleague Chrissy Houlahan and welcome to our third panel today.

We can and must rectify that. And we have to ensure that capital provision is available to entrepreneurs in this country.

We know how tough it is. We know how inflation impacts you. We know how labor crunches impact you.

Very quickly, what grade would you give the United States of America for its whole-of-government planning and execution of the withdrawal plan, what grade?

I am one of 20,000 Gold Star Children from the Vietnam war and now joined by 5,000 more Gold Star Children from both Iraq and Afghanistan.

I want to salute our staffers, staffers in Democratic offices, Republican offices, many of them very early career staffers who have done yeomen's work to help people evacuate from Afghanistan.

We should work together in a bipartisan fashion to increase that funding so that more eligible business can receive that assistance.

I am wholeheartedly committed to working with you, my friend from New York, on a short-term economic relief package for all hard-hit industries.

I think there is almost unanimous agreement that we have to replenish the RRF and take care of our nation's restaurants that have struggled because of COVID-19.

I thank the gentlewoman from California for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of my amendment, which affirms President Biden's budget request of $2 million for the purposes of supporting the planning for the 2025 World Expo…

I am equally concerned about the families that have relied on high-wage mining jobs for many generations.

I love it. And as someone who believes deeply that businesses can and should be positive forces for good.

We just started a caucus called the Stakeholder Capitalism Caucus, trying to encourage fellow Members of Congress to participate.

Representative Phillips and I will be piloting one of these constituent conversations in August with cross-sections of conservative and liberal constituents in Minnesota.

I thank my colleague from Michigan and all my friends for this Special Order hour. Paul, you might not know this, but you are an important mentor of mine, one of the most important mentors I have had in my brief career in this Chamber. You…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Greetings, Mr. Secretary. Grateful for your service to our country.

Do you agree that it's a net benefit to our national security by addressing State fragility proactively?

I think we can make a special effort to attract interns with physical disabilities to Congress to create a pipeline.