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Verification Alignment and Service-Disabled Business Adjustment Act

Floor Speech

Date: Nov. 13, 2019
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Business and Consumers Veterans

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Mr. CROW. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Verification Alignment and Service-Disabled Business Adjustment Act, or the VA-SBA Act.

I start by thanking my friend and colleague from Mississippi (Mr. Kelly)--or, as a former Army captain myself, I like to call him General Kelly--for his leadership and friendship and hard work on this bill as well.

Veterans are uniquely qualified and have a valuable perspective as they start and manage small businesses.

In my home State of Colorado, there are over 52,000 small businesses owned by veterans that continue to give back to the country, the community, and our economy every single day. These veteran-owned businesses have also proven to go above and beyond to hire other veterans, including those who have been injured in the line of duty.

Currently, service-disabled veterans who want to start a business have to go through a complicated, confusing, and redundant application process through both the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Small Business Administration.

The VA-SBA Act removes duplication in regulation and cuts red tape to ensure the Federal Government can provide the support and resources that our veterans deserve. It also ensures that data on service- disabled veteran-owned businesses and veteran-owned small businesses is located at the Small Business Administration, which is uniquely equipped to serve veterans who want to start small businesses.

This bill will greatly ease the burden on our veteran-owned small businesses by cutting unnecessary red tape.

I thank Chairwoman Velazquez and Ranking Member Chabot, as well as Mr. Schneider and all my colleagues on the Committee on Small Business. This truly is an example of bipartisan cooperation, as we have all come together to do the right thing by our veterans and our small businesses, a true win-win for the country and for our communities.

Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to support this bill.

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