José E. Serrano: “Mr. Chairman, if I may, I know we have come pretty close to the end of this process, and I just wanted to take this…”

“Mr. Chairman, if I may, I know we have come pretty close to the end of this process, and I just wanted to take this opportunity once again to thank the gentleman from Virginia (Chairman Wolf) for the work he has done on this bill, for the way in which he has treated me and our staff and our Members, for his understanding of these issues, and for the fact that this bill, which started out at the beginning of the day, actually last night, in my opinion to be a very good bill, has even become a better bill by some of the changes that we have made today, especially the issues concerning the Small Business Administration. I want to thank both staffs that are here with us at this time for the work they do. It is not only a service to us, the membership of this House, but I can assure you all it is seen as a service to our country and all of its citizens and residents. I wanted to once again thank the chairman for having an understanding of the needs that the minority needed in this bill and for putting together a bill that in fact speaks to so many issues and speaks to them in the proper way. We know that in conference there will be some changes, but we are hopeful that no one will hurt this project and this product, which is very good.”