Nydia Velázquez: “I would like to see that 50 percent of that money is carved out for minority businesses and women-owned businesses.”

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.

Of particular concern to me are the barriers that women, minority, and rural entrepreneurs face each and every day.

I commend Mr. Phillips and Mr. Meuser for their bipartisan work on H.R. 1651, the Small Business 7(a) Loan Agent Transparency Act.

Republicans want to cut vital food and healthcare support programs to pay for a tax cut for billionaires and large corporations. The GOP wants working families to pay for their billionaire handouts.