Nydia Velázquez: “I believe we are making it clear to the small business community that we are committed to working together and…”

America's 33 million small businesses are the cornerstones of our local economies.

It is a disservice to our nation's small firms to oversimplify this issue, as a mere consequence of federal spending.

my colleagues on the other side of the aisle constantly use this fact to call for dramatic spending cuts

I urge my colleagues not to engage in knee-jerk reactions that set back our real progress toward creating a more equitable criminal justice system.