Gluesenkamp Perez: “I am proud to co-lead this bill with Representative Stauber and I urge my colleagues on the committee to support it.”

There are claims that this is not the work that we were sent here to do. Then what gives us the right to be here if not being sent here? There is a premise here. We have to be endowed with trust, and that has to be reciprocal with our…

We know that 40 percent of the nation's small business lending originates from community banks.

The point is well made that Americans are suffering. A nonpayment of utility bills, people having their cars repossessed, people losing their businesses, people going without meals, that is in my community, and that is real. We do not…

The SBA is tasked with ensuring that small businesses are given a fair shot at competing for federal contracting dollars.