This presents a significant conflict of interest and inflicts harm on veteran-owned small businesses.

It cuts more than $168 billion from existing transportation and infrastructure programs, and it allows large companies and foreign investors to toll our roads and bridges.

Unfortunately, the President's infrastructure plan unveiled earlier this year would fall woefully short of this goal.

Small and medium-size businesses make up 97 percent of American exporting companies, making exports critical to our nation's overall economic health.

I am troubled at the President's recent announcements related to tariffs represent an erratic economic policy that could jeopardize small firms' participation in the global economy.

Free trade agreements inevitably create winners and losers in our economy.

how could such simple things like outreach from regulators reduce the compliance burden on small community leaders?

So do you have situations where, if certain requirements aren't met, that you give them an opportunity to do that?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don't think I will need that much time.

So consistency and coordination, then?

If barriers continue to prevent new and existing small businesses from participating in the Federal Marketplace, such as delays in change orders and packing their bottom line, what will this mean for the industrial base and businesses like…

I want us to focus on the things that we can do to help prepare these universities, which in many of the places where they are located, they are the economic engines in their communities.