the biggest problem small business has is big business... big government is not the problem for small business. It is big government.

So small businesses are struggling.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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