I thank my good friend from Missouri, the Republican leader of the Small Business Committee, Mr. Luetkemeyer. Madam Speaker, I am, as all of us are, I think, deeply concerned about the adverse impacts that the Democrats' budget…

I want to thank Ranking Member Luetkemeyer very much, as well as Chairwoman Velazquez, for working on this bill. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 4481, the Small Business 7(a) Loan Agent Transparency Act, introduced by my colleague…

I was in a grocery store on Sunday and nearly a dozen of my constituents stopped me and were very upset about product shortages and price increases. According to the data, eggs are up 12 percent, bacon is up 20 percent, chicken is up 8…

I thank my good friend Mr. Johnson very much, our conference vice chair, for putting this together today. Madam Speaker, as we all know, we have the latest crisis under the Biden administration, known as the supply chain bottlenecks…

I thank my very good friend, the gentleman, Mr. Hern, of the great State of Oklahoma for yielding some time to me this evening. Madam Speaker, last year, we collectively spent $5.6 trillion of the American taxpayer money for COVID relief…

And yet as a Christmas present, our--on the Democratic side of our Congress wants to tax you more and have some unclear vaccine requirements.

Now, of course, we have the port and part of that was due to COVID, a lot of it was due to mismanagement, a lot of it was due to government disruption.

So small businesses are not happy throughout my district and throughout Pennsylvania, and wherever else I speak to businesses.

I thank the gentlewoman from Minnesota for exposing that facts are very stubborn things. Mr. Speaker, what am I missing here? The Democrat leadership just lectured us on how critical it is for all of us to vote for their huge debt ceiling…

I thank the gentleman from Missouri for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the $1.2 trillion Transportation and Infrastructure bill is 100 percent coupled, linked, dependent upon the $3.5 trillion partisan reconciliation bill. As our colleagues in the…

In closing, although I very much share my colleague, Mr. Mfume's goal and idea, conceptually, in seeing more contract dollars be awarded to small business, I do not believe this is the correct approach. As a member of the Small Business…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this question are postponed. Amendment No…

Though I agree with Mr. Mfume that we need to find ways to incentivize and encourage agencies to contract with small businesses, very much so, I do not believe this is the correct approach. This amendment, unfortunately, does not actually…

I was unable to attend today's rollcall vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 266. MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 8, 117TH CONGRESS Burgess (Jackson) Cardenas (Gomez) Carter (TX) (Calvert)…

I thank the Republican leader, the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Granger). Mr. Speaker, today, the national debt is a higher percentage of GDP than it has ever been. Our national debt threatens to burden future generations and limit our…

I thank the gentlewoman. Mr. Speaker, if this was for past spending that the majority leader suggested, then the debt ceiling cap would be at today's level of debt, which is about $28.6 trillion. We will see a much higher number coming our…

Blaming the Trump administration, frankly, is equivalent to me planning a fishing trip months in advance, the day comes to leave, a hurricane comes in, you go anyway, and blame me for things going badly.

Thirteen Americans tragically--tragically killed. 124,000 Afghanistanians desperately fleeing for their lives, some falling off of airplanes as they leave, as they desperately try to get out.

The fact is, these epic mistakes and the ignoring of intel has left a country--OK, these are the facts, this is the reality of today--under a brutal terrorist regime, and the world is a more dangerous place.

Yet, sir, you sit and tell us that you did the right thing. Okay. That, frankly, makes us--kind of scares the hell out of us as to what decisions might be made next.

I, however, must State that I am very disappointed in your written testimony, your opening comments, and answers today, which really seem to me, sir, as a series of rationalizations.

It is imperative that the SBA has the oversight capabilities in place to manage its access to capital programs.

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 227. Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress Aderholt (Moolenaar) DeSaulnier (Thompson (CA)) Graves (MO) (Wagner) Green (TX)…

The Biden administration and Democrat House leadership want to cap off their first 6 months with an additional $3.5 trillion in massive bills which will be the largest expansion of government ever. Let's review the past 6 months. Prior to…

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