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“To close. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentlewoman for her leadership on this issue. I would also like to thank the staffs on both sides of the aisle, and I would also like to thank the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Rodney Frelinghuysen, for his assistance in a bump that we ran into at the eleventh hour there. He was a classmate of mine. We both came in in the historic class of 1994, and he will be leaving at the end of this term. He is going to be greatly missed, but, in any event, I want to thank Chairman Frelinghuysen. Mr. Speaker, to conclude, the 7(a) Loan Program is an important capital access resource for the Nation's small businesses. However, with any government guarantee program, strong oversight is mandatory to safeguard American taxpayer dollars. H.R. 4743 institutes strong and critical reforms to make sure oversight is front and center as this program is administered by the SBA. H.R. 4743 ensures the program will only be utilized by small businesses that truly require its services, and I urge my colleagues to support the bipartisan reforms instituted in H.R. 4743. Finally, I want to again thank the gentlewoman from New York and the staffs and everyone else involved in this. I understand it might not be the norm everywhere these days, but, in our committee, it is business-- and I should say--it is small business as usual.…”