Roger Williams: “I want to thank all of you for keeping the American Dream alive for the small-business owners and entrepreneurs all…”

Thank you, Chairman Williams for including this legislation in our markup today and I hope that all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will agree that simple, clear language is a way to ensure prosperity for our small businesses.

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…

Not one small business has said, yeah, we need more rules and regulations. Not one.

Satchel Paige, a great Hall of Fame baseball player, in 1948 won two games of a doubleheader. When he was in the locker room talking to the press, the press said: Satchel, you won both games today. What was your best pitch, your fast ball…