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STATEMENT of the Honorable Nydia Velazquez, Ranking Member House Committee on Small Business “Placing Federal Tax Dollars at Risk: How the Small Business Administration Mismanages the Modernization of its Information Technology” Wednesday, February 8, 2012 I thank the Chairman for yielding. Last week, the Department of Labor reported that unemployment fell to the lowest level in three years. This ... Read more »

STATEMENT Of the Honorable Mark Critz House Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy, and Trade Hearing on Department of Labor's Regulation of Child Labor in Agriculture February 2, 2012 Across America, farming is not just a source of food, but a way of life. In my home state of Pennsylvania, there are more than 63,000 farms, and more than 90 percent are family-owned and ope... Read more »

Statement of the Honorable Nydia M. Velázquez, Ranking Member Committee on Small Business “The Path to Job Creation: The State of American Small Businesses” February 1, 2012 Thank you, Chairman Graves. By almost any measure, conditions for small firms are better today than any time since the recession ended in June of 2009. According to the Federal Reserve, banks loosened credit restrictions for ... Read more »