Kevin Hern

Those who can help themselves need to find a job.

The federal government has no money. It only has our taxpayers' money, and we are supposed to be good stewards of that.

Under the Trump Administration we have seen unprecedented job creation.

I ran on one principle, and that was getting out of the way of job creators.

thank you so much for your relentless pursuit of trying to make this a better program.

SBA's capital access programs are transforming neighborhoods and communities from my home state of Oklahoma to Florida and beyond.

Dodd-Frank really destroyed the ability for the small community banks to come out and take a chance on people like Ms. Jallow.

I certainly understand how vital infrastructure is to small businesses and the necessary burdens that are put on by the government.

I could not agree more that we have a major spending problem in this country.

We undervalue the value of skilled labor today and technology and welding, C&C machinery, woodworking materials.

One of my goals is to figure out how we put the resources of where capital can be accessed into a reserve or a place where you can find it.

We tried to get into the rules so that we had not had an analysis of impact--economic impact on anything that we did related to the transition, and that rule was struck down.

So I assure you that I will work with my Chairman that we make that happen with the team, that we look at every opportunity.

The lack of a solid business case for rural broadband deployment remains the central reason for what is often referred to as the 'digital divide'.

Today, more than 24 million Americans lack access to high speed internet, the vast majority of whom live in rural communities.

As a small businessperson for 34 years and a person who has lived the American dream, come from extraordinary poverty to being a very successful businessperson, there is nothing that has been a greater joy for me later in my life than to…

I just want, because in business you are about getting results, and I know that you are probably going to leave here and feel like you testified and nothing really got done.

Small Businesses owned by minority, women, and veterans face a unique set of challenges, ranging from raising adequate financing, to building social capital, to finding the effective mentors.

With 99.9 percent of all businesses in the United States being classified as small, the impact that small businesses have on our economy cannot be overstated.

So really, we are left just with one option. That is just raise income taxes on everybody to the point where we run out of other people's money to pay for things that we can't afford any more.

But we will work hard on this because it is so important to our nation and I said this in our Full Committee, that we cannot have big businesses in the future if we do not have small businesses today.

Rural businesses, however, while facing those challenges, also tend to face a different set of challenges, most notably, access to reliable and affordable broadband service.

I think I may be the oldest up here. I have been creating jobs for a long time.

If I may, just to fast forward that, with the change in 2018 November election, there was a decline in small business enthusiasm, almost coinciding with an election, coincidentally or not.

I will remind us all, the greatest social program in the world is a job.