Dwight Evans

Weeks ago, I, along with my friend from across the aisle, Representative Dwight Evans of Pennsylvania, introduced legislation to ensure that America's Small Business Development Centers have the best possible cybersecurity training.

I would like to thank my colleague Congresswoman Velazquez for her long history of working to help Puerto Rico.

Rather than bickering over the issues not under our control, we should be working together to improve the lending, contracting, and entrepreneurship development landscape on the island.

Today is an opportunity for us to consider the dire economic situation facing Puerto Rico.

Namely, the SBA 504 program helps small businesses obtain long-term financing for major assets, such as real estate and equipment.

However, obtaining conventional credit can be particularly difficult for small businesses, making a Small Business Administration lending program critical to filling this gap.

In order for small firms to play their traditional job-creating role, a number of factors must be in place.

I think also, the external event also showed something that normally you wouldn't have seen. Unfortunately, the shooting and the violence occurred. I think made us, was on the floor, was at the briefing, (INAUDIBLE) Democrats and…

I can't tell you how nice it is just to be able to have a beer and watch a game after what's transpired over the last 36 hours.

I look forward to working with Congress to ensure that we have a research program that is focused on developing solutions and providing state-of-the-art technologies to improve management decisions on farm and on forest lands.

Adequate access to food, especially healthy food, is a national problem.

I have always said that food policy is foreign policy, and we know that food is a bipartisan issue that we all have to eat.

I am very much interested in a very specific way about access of people of color taking advantage of these opportunities.

Employers are not required by law to offer benefits such as health coverage, retirement plans, or paid vacations.

The topic of today's hearing--cafeteria plans and the lack of options for small business owners--is of significant concern.

Last night House Republicans released their plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act. House Republicans and the Trump administration say that they want a healthcare plan that cuts costs and covers more Americans; yet they introduced a plan…

I've always stressed the part about consumers and farmers have a direct connection in this, and everybody likes food.

My name is Dwight Evans and I'm from the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and I represent part of Philadelphia in Montgomery County, but I always say to my good friend, the Ranking Member, that there's a direct connection between…

I would like to pick up a little bit on the question around the jobs.

When you say the 240,000 jobs, is that the jobs beyond the agricultural sector too?

In Pennsylvania, through the leadership of now-Congressman Dwight Evans, we have the Pennsylvania Fresh Financing Initiative.

Thanks in large part to now-Congressman Dwight Evans, our Fresh Food Financing Initiative funded 88 grocery store projects in urban and rural areas and created 5,000 jobs.

I think that the points that the gentlewoman is raising are very legitimate in terms of the experience that I have had. And the experience that I have had, always the question is: Is there enough availability of capital in any startup of…

The fact is Planned Parenthood does not sell fetal tissue for profit and never has. A Republican-led House panel is undeterred and conducting its own investigation and, more accurately, witch hunt. Even more troubling is the considerable…

I rise in support of H.R. 4231. It is a good bill that will give the Department of Veterans Affairs some new opportunities to meet the challenges of maintaining a strong nursing workforce during the severe nursing shortage projected for…