[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 204 (Thursday, December 3, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H6137]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      RESTAURANTS AND STORES ARE BEING FORCED TO SHUT THEIR DOORS

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, the Christmas season is here, a time during 
which our small businesses typically thrive, the season that gets them 
through much of the rest of the year fiscally.
  This year, however, restaurants and stores are forced into shutting 
their doors on much of Main Street America. However, the Paycheck 
Protection Program has saved 51 million jobs across the country.
  Speaker Pelosi could use this legislative week to free up the 
remaining $135 billion in PPP reserves, but instead we are voting on 
legalizing a schedule I narcotic, and then whether to pass a Carole 
Baskin anti-tiger bill.
  Now is not the time to play politics by withholding money that has 
been already allocated on behalf of small business. At the end of the 
year, if we do not use these funds, they will expire.
  I encourage all my colleagues to join me in signing the discharge 
petition for H.R. 8265, freeing up these funds immediately and reviving 
the tested and effective PPP to save more small businesses this year, 
especially as governments clamp down even more so on their closures.

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