Dwight Evans

I am very supportive of the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. For months I have been hearing from restaurants in my district about the need to pass the bill which will provide $120 billion for grants to restaurants.

My constituents in Philadelphia need more COVID relief now. Many of them are worried or scared, but the Republican Senate is still focused on confirming more Trump judges. The House passed the Heroes Act, which gives us more of what we…

Thank you, Madam Chair, for your leadership, especially on this subject and staying relentless on this subject.

I thank you, Madam Chair, for allowing me this time, and I really appreciate all you have done on this, okay?

This is quite concerning, coming from the city of Philadelphia, where over 40 percent of the population is African American.

However, that excitement has turned to frustration. Many constituent business owners have reached out to my office because they are waiting weeks or months to hear anything about their EIDL application.

We need a commitment to release a comprehensive list of firms who applied for and received aid under the PPP.

The response on the PPP program has been equally unacceptable.

It sounds like we could lose a lot of black businesses specifically--obviously there is the pandemic, and then there is the unrest, and then there is the PPP.

I thank you, Madam Chairperson for your leadership on small businesses and everything you have done.

Madam Chair, I hope with the question that I just asked, yes, protecting patents are important and what we need to do, but at the end of the day, if you are going to move these patents to be commercialized to the marketplace and try to…

Women and minorities are less likely to receive venture capital.

This bill will permit those small businesses to use their work in joint ventures or as subcontractors to count as past performance.

This hurts the small businesses, especially their ability to bid and compete when contractors are prime.

This bill is especially important to minority-owned small businesses.

Healthcare costs is a serious issue to Americans.

I voted to support Committee passage of House Resolution 3, which helps reduce prescription drug prices.

Gun violence is a public health issue. Just this year alone, we have seen more than 10,000 deaths and more than 40,000 gun-related incidences. We have run out of excuses to not act on this. These are people's lives we are talking about…

As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

The reason I say that is I am on Ways and Means.

What the Republicans were able to do is a term called 'drain the beast,' cut the taxes so there wouldn't be any money on the expense side.

This hearing, in my view, reinforces this discussion, and that piece you said front and center.

The new House Democratic majority has passed several important bills, including bills to protect Americans' healthcare. One of those important bills coming up is the Equality Act. First as a State legislator and now as a Member of…

Across the U.S., there are nearly 30 million small businesses supporting almost 59 million jobs.

Small firms account for 99.6 percent of my state employers.