When Congress passed the bipartisan infrastructure law, we included a bipartisan amendment in this committee that put the Minority Business Development Agency into statute. Our intention was to invest in entrepreneurs and small businesses by expanding the reach of business centers that provide high quality technical assistance to minority business enterprises, including counseling and mentoring, assisting with access to capital and contracts, and supporting job creation and retention. That recent bipartisan accomplishment, led by many members of this committee and again on a bipartisan basis, has been dismissed by this administration, which is set on eliminating the agency and closing the business centers in our states. (00:31–00:52)
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Asserts the intention of the bipartisan amendment was to support minority business enterprises through various means.
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