One of the things Ms. Chu and I in her district, on our subcommittee, one of the things we heard when we were out in California was the lack of information about SBA programs.

I have actually participated in the disaster assistance relief program. I showed up at work about 6 months after I had started my own business one morning to find my office furniture floating in the front yard.

I have enjoyed sitting here listening to the arguments against this amendment. They range from the bizarre to the completely incredible. We've heard it's not 1985. I wish it were and that the deficit were only $5 trillion. Imagine what the…

Last week I came to this floor and stood in the well and called upon the Senate to do something, which was to take up this bill--this bill that had passed out of our subcommittee with tremendous bipartisan support and that passed out of…

But that the work that was done out there that was the subject of today's hearing for 3rd Army was not done under the rules regarding project labor agreements.

I guess it is fair to say that if there was another project over $25 million that began today at Shaw Air Force Base, it would be subject to the review that you have just laid out, and it might fall under the project labor agreement.

Thank you. And my understanding is that project labor agreements have been generally perceived as being favorable to union labor over at-will labor.

I'm Mick Mulvaney, 5th District representative from South Carolina, and the chairman of the Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce.

Last week, unbeknownst to most people because it doesn't get a lot of coverage, we did something in this House that most people in the Nation didn't think we had the capability of doing. We passed, on a bipartisan basis, a bill that will…

I give the President tremendous credit for specifically mentioning those things in his jobs bill.

While the path to success is not always easy, it remains achievable to all who are willing to put in the hard work to build a business.

Exports is something else that everybody here has mentioned off and on.

As a member of Congress from a very, very rural, small area in South Carolina who has only, I think, been to California twice in my life for a combined 15 hours, this has been a really neat experience to be here in this wonderful town that…

There is a tremendous untapped market for us in small business.

This is a bipartisan effort. We are not here with Republican and Democrat.

We just had a series of meetings in my district led by the U.S. Chamber specifically encouraging people to export into the Middle East.

One of the founding principles that allows our country to be successful is the spirit of entrepreneurship.

Less than 1 percent of the small businesses nationwide export at all, and 95 percent of the ones that do export to only one country.

We just spent several weeks back in our own districts, and I had a chance to talk to a lot of folks--and a lot of my Democrat friends. I do have some of those. They're always asking me, Why can't you just agree with the President? Why…

We will adjourn now until 11 o'clock, although I will tell you Ms. Chu and I will come back as quickly as we can to try and move through.

It was nice to welcome the two new members of Congress.

I can't tell you how much I long for a discussion of ideas, an honest and open discussion of real ideas in this Chamber as opposed to talking points. Clearly, we're not going to be getting that here this evening. What we've heard so far is…

``The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. Leadership means that the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today on to the backs of our…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. By way of brief summary, this amendment would freeze the base Department of Defense funding at 2011 levels. It is roughly a $17 billion reduction, or a 3 percent reduction over the bill that's currently before us…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina will be postponed. Amendment No. 71 Offered by Ms. Bass of California