Roger Williams: “Like all of you, I am a small business owner in Texas. I have been for 51 years.”

Industries like construction are particularly affected, with the projection showing the need for over 500,000 additional workers annually.

Main street is facing a dire labor shortage, with 90 percent of businesses reporting few or no qualified applicants in August.

All of us are going to get the message out. It really has great timing from our standpoint, because now we can compare socialism, Marxism, communism with what Texas values are all about and American values: capitalism and free markets.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleagues, Mr. Meuser and Mrs. McIver, for working together in a bipartisan way on behalf of strengthening the SBA's flagship 7(a) loan program. For too long, a few bad actors have damaged one of the most…