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Helping America's Small Businesses

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 24, 2020
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, normally, we would do the colloquy with the majority leader. He and I will not be doing that this week, but I know we do still have real concerns about those families and businesses that are struggling today through these difficult times. Many of those businesses were able to get relief through the Paycheck Protection Program, a program that we all came together to get agreement on, to help millions of small businesses. Over 50 million jobs were saved by that program.

We also know there is about $138 billion still remaining in that fund, but the fund has expired. So I want to bring attention to things we can do together to alleviate that, to help those small businesses with that remaining money, and to talk about that more.

Herrera Beutler). Request to Discharge Committee from Further Consideration of H.R. 8265

Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER. 8265) to extend the Paycheck Protection Program access for small businesses, to extend the lifeline that southwest Washington businesses--over 9,500 have taken advantage of, and have saved 92,000 jobs in southwest Washington and across this country, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.

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Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, we will still push the majority to put that bill on the suspension calendar. We have no doubt it would pass overwhelmingly. We will continue to fight for those small businesses.

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