I understand that there was a recommendation by the IG to recover more than 800,000 probably spent funds from the program.

It is laughable. Right?

It is called American innovation. It is called entrepreneurship.

It is always enjoyable, it seems, to talk about football, particularly in the middle of the day or late morning on a Wednesday.

higher taxes make American businesses and certainly American farms less competitive.

regulations are not helpful.

So many actions of the SEC trouble me, including the pace of rulemaking, limited comment periods, aggressive implementation timelines, and the lack of responsiveness to congressional concerns.

To close, Mr. Chairman and Members, I want to say to all the fraudsters and thieves that stole our money, we are coming after you.

As we discussed earlier in our hearing last week, the SBA's inspector general detailed in his report that $200 billion of pandemic loan dollars were potentially obtained fraudulently.

I am fired up to introduce the PPP/EIDL Fraud Report Act of 2023, alongside my good friend from Maryland, Mr. Mfume.

Representative Meuser will lead us.