I urge all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support it, and I yield back.

While I appreciate the majority's focus on gun control legislation and think it is important that this Committee Act in a responsible manner, I think that their efforts are misdirected.

It is in the best interest of our Nation's economy and the very fabric of our communities to ensure that this program yields high quality, productive, and successful small disadvantaged businesses and entrepreneurs.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman, for holding this important hearing on a program that means so much to so many disadvantaged entrepreneurs across the country.

The President neither conspired nor colluded with the Russians to impact or influence the 2016 presidential election.

If there was insufficient effort to protect America from the Russians, it was Obama's fault, not Trump's.

The Federal Government has long recognized the policy that the government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect the interests of small business concerns.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman, for holding this hearing, and I yield back.

The 8(a) program is a crucial component of the SBA's arsenal of small business programs.

We do virtually nothing about it in this Committee.

Yet again, coming here to tell this Committee what we, Special Counsel Mueller, and the American public already know, that President Trump did not collude with the Russians, nor did he obstruct justice.

As a close friend and adviser of the President, you don't believe that the President is working on behalf of the Russians, do you?

We got a $22 trillion debt hanging over our head; yet we do nothing in this Committee.

They don't have the votes in the House to move forward for the House to vote for this Committee to open an impeachment inquiry.

We could be focused on something that really matters, like immigration, asylum.

We're wasting valuable Committee time engaging in this impeachment investigation.

That's unfortunate, because you didn't solicit or receive assistance from the Russians, did you?

The medical field is an integral part of our everyday lives.

More must be done to streamline communication between practices and insurance providers.

In your opening statement you mentioned not being able to complete surgery for the patient because of prior authorization.

However, despite the reasoning for these processes, more must be done to streamline communication between practices and insurance providers.

We are here today to hear from medical professionals about the burdens experienced by small medical practices, especially utilization management.

As we in Ohio know all too well, medical professionals are on the frontlines fighting the opioid epidemic.

one of the areas where the existing Tax Code really ought to be reformed to encourage it going from generation to generation rather than having to sell it off to pay the taxes.

I had an opportunity to tour a facility in Cincinnati a year ago, year and a half ago, something like that, and was very impressed with it.