This was a necessary piece of legislation because it helped businesses that were some of the first to close and the last to open as a result of the pandemic.

easier, not harder would be what we want the SBA to understand.

I applaud businesses like yours, Ms. Presley, for being so resilient and able to hold off through this incompetency we saw at the SBA in order to access these funds.

Like all of you, I am a small business owner in Texas. I have been for 51 years.

When I talk to business owners back in Texas, they are concerned about our supply chains, the out-of-control inflation and the constant threat of tax increases coming from the Democrats in Washington.

the SBA demonstrated their inability to discharge emergency lending at every single turn, yet, my democratic colleagues want to expand the SBA's lending authority and kind of reward bad behavior.

Cinemas, theaters, concert halls, and other entertainment venues across the country struggled to stay in business.

I find this lack of communication troubling.

this Committee and this agency is so political and the main street small business owner is getting squeezed right in the middle. This is going to have to change.

the SBA seemed to be one of the worst in distributing business saving funds for the last 2 years.

You ought to look into it and see who is responsible for delaying this to these businesses that cost so many jobs.