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US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, June 5, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- :27:39.120><c> business</c> about putting American small business about putting American small business
- It caps the number of SBA 7(a) non-bank lenders who can give loans to America's small businesses.
- Community Advantage small business lending companies provide loans to small businesses located in underserved
- Small and new businesses often require small-dollar loans, not million-dollar loans.
- Small and new businesses often require small-dollar loans, not million-dollar loans.
Keywords:
small business lending company, SBLC, SBA lending, Small Business Administration, section 7 loans, small business loans, loan guarantee, lender cap, financial institutions, credit access, small business finance, nonprofit lenders, business lending, CEASE Act, House passage, Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, sanctuary jurisdictions, office relocation, immigration policy, government operations
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, January 20, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The microloan program issues loans of $50,000 or less At low interest rates, to help small businesses
- H.R. 5763, a bill to amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to modify the criteria For loans
- H.R. 5763 allows small businesses on Main Street to have equal access to SBA 504 loans.
- A bill to amend the Small Business Act to require Small Business Development Centers to assist small
- In fiscal year 2025, the program supported $7.8 billion in loans To small businesses nationwide.
Keywords:
AI for Main Street Act, artificial intelligence, small business, small business development centers, SBDC, Small Business Act, business technology, digital transformation, cybersecurity, data protection, intellectual property, regulatory compliance, business training, entrepreneurship, technology adoption, AI literacy, outreach, main street businesses, Main Street Parity Act, Small Business Investment Act of 1958
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Business meeting to consider S.298, to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to relocate 30 percent of the employees assigned to headquarters to duty stations outside the Washington metropolitan area, S.300, to improve accoun Feb 12th, 2025 at 08:30 am
Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- I call the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship to order.
- The Senate created this committee to help all small businesses compete with larger firms.
- business owners and homeowners who have utilized SBA programs. of small business owners and homeowners
- all small businesses, not just a select few.
- What I do know is that a significant percent of businesses in Nevada are small businesses, and they have
Keywords:
employee relocation, headquarters, Small Business Administration, Washington metropolitan area, telework, cost reduction, rural markets, geographic diversity, disaster loans, accountability, reporting, loan forgiveness, federal funding, SBA reforms, small business, disaster assistance, transparency, report publication, government accountability
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, June 3, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><03:36:49.200><c> business</c> and accessible to small business and accessible to small business
- </c><03:51:47.600><c> Business</c> Predictability in Small Business Predictability in Small Business
- Loan agents are often the middleman between the SBA, a 7A lender, and a small business.
- small businesses.
- </c> to start their own small business. to start their own small business.
Keywords:
7(a) loan program, Small Business Administration, SBA, small business lending, loan brokers, loan consultants, referral agents, loan intermediaries, fraud oversight, transparency, reporting requirements, loan fees, referral fees, interest rates, business financing, small business loans, lender oversight, application assistance, Congressional reporting, small business
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Business, Trade & Economic Development Jan 29th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Business, Trade & Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Small loans are subject to limitations, including the principal amount of a loan or the total loan balance
- Senate Bill 6250 is about updating our small loan to better reflect today's economy.
- Email is one of the most affordable and effective tools a small business has.
- For small business owners like me, this isn’t about avoiding responsibility.
- I respectfully ask you to support Senate Bill 5976 on behalf of all small businesses. Thank you.
Keywords:
commercial email, spam regulations, online marketing, privacy, consumer protection, SB 6111, Washington Protecting Children Online Act, online child safety, minor privacy, age verification, parental consent, social media regulation, digital platforms, user-generated content, content moderation, online harms, youth protection, data privacy, geolocation, targeted advertising
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, December 1, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> country's 36 million small businesses. country's 36 million small businesses.
- businesses uh or certifying small businesses uh or certifying small businesses<02:24:23.840><c> to</
- </c> small businesses afloat. small businesses afloat.
- ><c> Business</c> pandemic, the Small Business pandemic, the Small Business Administration<02:35:21.600
- </c> small businesses. And I yield back. small businesses. And I yield back.
Bills:
HB4423 , HB5348 , HB4430 , HB4431 , HB4429 , HB3716 , HR225 , HB5349 , HB5346 , HB5345 , HB5284 , HB4313 , HR1262 , SB616 , HR176 , HB2159 , HB4323 , HB2066 , HB4549 , HB4495 , HB4491 , HB3174
Keywords:
Burma, Myanmar, World Bank, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD, foreign aid, sanctions, military coup, democracy, development financing, multilateral lending, Treasury Department, Executive Director, international financial institutions, human rights, junta, national interest waiver, Social Security, SSN, Social Security number
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- that a strategic financing partner can make contributions, which would include some form of cash, loan
- I think with loans like such as this, I think it would be cheaper for the state to put up money like
Committee:
Senate Appropriations
Keywords:
longevity pay, state employees, Oklahoma government, salary increase, emergency declaration, capital planning, funding allocation, state budget, infrastructure, emergency measures, income tax credit, qualified project, economic development, infrastructure funding, small population areas, school employees, teachers, support personnel, support employees, public schools
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Business, Trade & Economic Development Feb 4th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Business, Trade & Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Happy Wednesday, and welcome to the Senate Business, Trade & Economic Development Committee.
- The next bill is SB 6250, concerning the maximum principal amount of small loans.
- It increases the limit of the principal amounts or total loan balance of small loans, receiving...
- The limit of the principal amounts or total loan balance of small loans received by a small loan borrower
- calculated on individual loans by borrowers.
Bills:
SB6248 , SB5976 , SB6079 , SB6250 , SB6257 , SB6289 , SB6230 , SB6312 , SB6149 , SGA9060 , SGA9169 , SGA9265 , SGA9266
Keywords:
travel insurance, travel protection plan, travel assistance services, cancellation fee waiver, travel retailer, travel administrator, limited lines producer, insurance producer license, blanket travel insurance, trip cancellation, trip interruption, travel medical coverage, emergency evacuation, repatriation, inland marine, premium tax, consumer protection, unfair trade practice, insurance commissioner, Washington RCW
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/26
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- business emergency loans and small business loan guarantee approvals because we believed in the rigor
- business emergency loans and small business loan guarantee approvals because we believed in the rigor
- business emergency loans and small business loan guarantee approvals because we believed in the rigor
- business emergency loans and small business loan guarantee approvals because we believed in the rigor
- business emergency loans and small business loan guarantee approvals because we believed in the rigor
Bills:
HF4477
Keywords:
Minnesota business recovery loan program, small business loan, zero-interest loan, forgivable loan, business recovery, economic development, small business emergency loan account, Minnesota Initiative Foundations, nonprofit lenders, greater Minnesota, Twin Cities metro, seven-county metropolitan area, immigration enforcement, business interruption, revenue loss, job preservation, business stabilization, state appropriation, forward fund, loan forgiveness
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, December 2, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Business Administration to ensure that the small business regulatory budget for a small business concern
- </c><02:27:08.000><c> Business</c> for advocacy of the Small Business for advocacy of the Small Business
- </c><02:32:53.040><c> Business</c> taken by the Small Business taken by the Small Business Administration
- </c> compliance costs on small businesses. compliance costs on small businesses.
- Business Administration to ensure that the small business regulatory budget for a small business concern
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, December 3, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Kim from East Greenwich runs a small business with her husband, an appraisal company.
- a small business with her husband, runs a small business with her husband, an<00:35:29.839><c> appraisal
- Union Calendar No. 82, H.R. 2965, a bill to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration
- to ensure that the small business regulatory budget for a small business concern in a fiscal year is
- Union Calendar No. 333, H.R. 4305, a bill to direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business
Keywords:
digital workers, creators, platform economy, independent contractors, portable benefits, income stability, transparency, algorithmic systems, small businesses, fair treatment, small business, regulatory burden, advocacy, government oversight, compliance assistance, Red Tape Hotline, regulatory budget, Small Business Administration, fiscal responsibility, rulemaking
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, March 17, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:09:28.080><c> owners,</c> public advocates, business owners, public advocates, business owners
- Instead, they take out loans against their stock, and they don't pay tax on their loans.
- I yield back. simply, this bill would tax those loans simply, this bill would tax those loans and<02:
- Speaker, and I yield back. worship, in the business community to worship, in the business community to
- This is a 15-minute vote. unfinished business is the vote on the unfinished business is the vote on the
Keywords:
rules resolution, special rule, House procedure, floor consideration, lead ammunition, lead tackle, fishing tackle, hunting, wildlife management, federal lands, federal waters, Department of the Interior, Department of Agriculture, immigration and nationality act, inadmissible, deportable, public benefits fraud, fraud against the United States, alien deportation, law enforcement animals
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Consumer Protection & Business Jan 27th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Consumer Protection & Business
Transcript Highlights:
- As brief background information on House Bill 2361, to engage in the business of making small loans,
- of all small loans made by all licensees to a single borrower at any one time cannot exceed $700 or
- of all small loans made by all licensees to a single borrower at any one time cannot exceed $700 or
- Current law also provides requirements such as a restriction against more than eight small loans from
- For reference, currently a licensee may charge interest or fees for small loans not to exceed, in the
Committee:
House Consumer Protection & Business
Keywords:
small loans, consumer protection, financial regulation, lending limits, credit access, animal testing, alternatives, ethical research, animal welfare, scientific methods, infrastructure, protection, safety, security, state regulations, public safety, insurance fraud, law enforcement, crime, penalties
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- across the state, especially small businesses.
- Small businesses have had a couple of rough years.
- And how, you know, clearly small businesses.
- That touches and helps every small business.
- , really, in the state of Texas, particularly small businesses, but for so many small businesses, it
Committee:
House Ways & Means
Keywords:
HB 8, school finance, compressed tax rate, maximum compressed tax rate, MCR, PYMCR, property tax, school district taxes, Education Code, Tax Code, state aid, school funding formula, local school taxes, Texas school finance, tax rate compression, public education funding, ad valorem tax, tangible personal property, income-producing property, business personal property
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair lays out House Bill 2587 of Spending and Business.
- Chair lays out House Bill 2188 as pending business.
- Chair lays out House Bill 2200 as pending business.
- Chair lays out House Bill 1747 as pending business.
- business pharmacy here in Austin, Texas.
Bills:
HB3772 , HB1656 , HB4504 , HB1896 , HB4420 , HB4421 , HB4076 , HB3708 , HB2806 , HB3540 , HB1586 , HB5459 , HB4553 , HB4535 , HB3811 , HB3749 , HB4255 , HB4051 , HB5098 , HB3554 , HB4539 , HB5274
Committee:
House Public Health
Keywords:
e-cigarettes, health and safety, regulations, directory, penalties, regulation, certification, compliance, manufacturers, FDA, nicotine, mental health, emergency detention, paramedic authority, mental illness, healthcare facility, public health, covenants not to compete, health care practitioners, physicians
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- farmers and small food businesses, and encourages small farmers and food businesses to sell in more
- This is infeasible for many small farmers and smaller food businesses.
- These types of businesses have very small profit margins.
- Small food businesses, according to the Small Business Administration, are anywhere between $2.25 million
- This is an industry driven by small businesses, many of which are owned by women.
Bills:
HB3772 , HB1656 , HB4504 , HB1896 , HB4420 , HB4421 , HB4076 , HB3708 , HB2806 , HB3540 , HB1586 , HB5459 , HB4553 , HB4535 , HB3811 , HB3749 , HB4255 , HB4051 , HB5098 , HB3554 , HB4539 , HB5274
Committee:
House Public Health
Keywords:
e-cigarettes, health and safety, regulations, directory, penalties, regulation, certification, compliance, manufacturers, FDA, nicotine, mental health, emergency detention, paramedic authority, mental illness, healthcare facility, public health, covenants not to compete, health care practitioners, physicians
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Trade, Workforce & Economic Development May 21st, 2025
Trade, Workforce & Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, when natural disasters occur, small businesses often rely on federal SBA loans to recover, but
- To address this, the 87th Legislature created two programs: the Small Business Disaster Loan Program
- and the Micro Business Disaster Loan Program to offer loan cost abating. loans while businesses wait
- We represent over 20,000 small business owners here in Texas.
- Small businesses need an injection of capital to get them through.
Keywords:
SB 1361, Texas disaster recovery loan, small business loan, micro-business loan, community development financial institution, CDFI, economic disaster assistance, post-disaster financing, business recovery fund, Texas Economic Development Bank, zero-interest loan, working capital, payroll support, health benefits, job retention, declared disaster, small business relief, microenterprise, franchise exclusion, private equity-backed business
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, June 23, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- to small businesses.
- H.R. 915, a bill to authorize small business loans to finance access to modern business software and
- The SBA's flagship 7(a) loan program provides small businesses with working capital that can be used
- Last year, the 7(a) program provided more than 78,000 loans to small businesses worth more than 37.2
- That's why the Small Business Administration's the Small Business Administration's disaster loan program
Bills:
HB2323 , HB6644 , SB629 , HB8882 , HB8881 , HB8880 , HB8879 , HB4238 , HR915 , HR826 , HB7401 , HB7396
Keywords:
Big Bend National Park, land acquisition, boundary adjustment, Secretary of the Interior, conservation, housing, affordability, institutional investors, vacant properties, grants, homeownership, urban development, Holodomor, Ukraine famine, 1932-1933 famine, genocide recognition, Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, collectivization, grain confiscation
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- where small and medium-sized businesses cannot do that.
- But ultimately, this is a small business engagement tour.
- So the small business priorities are a little bit different than, say, big business.
- small business, it's more service-oriented.
- We talk to business leaders. We talk to small business leaders. We're talking to them continuously.
Bills:
HB2754
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor & Commerce Feb 23rd, 2026 at 10:30 am
Labor & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- Small business producers, especially our social equity license holders, are forced to compete in a highly
- This is a very small number.
- I'm James Crandall with the Association of Washington Business. And James?
- It hurts competing businesses.
- Patrick Connor, with NFIB representing Washington's small business owners, and here today on behalf of
Committee:
Senate Labor & Commerce
Keywords:
liquor license, snack bar, state regulations, alcohol sales, business licensing, collective bargaining, retirement benefits, employee rights, public sector, supplemental benefits, education, funding, student loans, affordability, higher education, public employers, employee information, bargaining representatives, labor relations, union representation