[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15417]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          SBA GRINDS TO A HALT

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her 
remarks.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, the economic 
disruption caused by the Republican-orchestrated shutdown continues to 
mount. The negative impact on the lives of the American people and the 
loss of jobs and opportunities continues to rise.
  As one example, in my home district of New York, the shutdown is 
hitting some small business owners really hard because it brought to an 
absolute halt any work of the Small Business Administration. On 
average, the Small Business Administration approves over 9 million 
loans in my district alone for small businesses each month, but because 
of this shutdown, zero. Zero are being approved--small business loans, 
real estate or equipment loans, and this has a terrible ripple effect 
on our economy.
  It was bad enough that the majority would not bring a single 
meaningful jobs bill, infrastructure or transportation bill to the 
floor for a vote to create jobs; but now, this reckless, long-planned 
action to bring the work of the government to a halt, it is actively 
killing jobs, killing opportunity, killing hope.
  Let's bring a clean budget up for a vote today and put people over 
politics.

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