employee-owned small businesses are an important part of the small business ecosystem. we must continue to streamline the processes and procedures in place at the s.b.a. for all small businesses. h.r. 5236, ms. velazquez's legislation, is a step in the right direction. that provides clarity for employee-owned small businesses and worker cooperatives. i want to thank the ranking member, ms. velazquez, who has spearheaded this legislation and i urge my colleagues to vote yes on h.r. 5236. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. is gentlelady from new york recognized. ms. velazquez: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. velazquez: i rise in support of h.r. 5236, the main street employee ownership act, a commonsense measure to improve s.b.a.'s lending and training programs to enable employees to purchase the companies they work for. as baby boomers near retirement, the country faces a substantialdy lema. roughly half of privately held companies

update and report on the office of small business and small business assistance center. department programs, policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor and announcements regarding small business activities. discussion item. >>

thankfully, we have an office of small business led by executive director regina and the small business commission who work diligently to help our small business owners. this office provides programs like shop and dine in the 49, mayor lee's legacy by local campaign that encourages residents to shop locally inspired other cities. open in san francisco, which has helped more than 150 businesses with free services to open small brick and mortar businesses within the city. invest in neighborhoods, a program that has invested more than $11 million in small businesses in neighborhoods city wide and provides neighborhood empowerment development projects and programs. access to capital, direct small business assistance grants to businesses for disaster relief, ada improvement, sf shines, women entrepreneurship fund and construction mitigation. 166 businesses have received grants city wide and 1139 small businesses have received technical assistance to date. the office of small business also focuses on our legacy business program with 132 long time businesses receiving assistance and 53 busines

small market. in order to avoid liability under the equal credit opportunity act, institutions with indirect lending relationships with auto dealers must either plays controls on dealer compensation or forbid dealers from offering a marked up rate on loans. the cfpb overstepped its statutory once again as the agency scribet as an attempt to reduce discrimination in the marketplace. however, as chairman hensarling testified before the rules committee yesterday, the house sent 13 letters to the cfpb questioning the rational for the rule and science the agency used to determine that there was discrimination occurring in the marketplace. t surprisingly, the cfpb could not point to sound science that led to this decision. in fact, new evidence shows that the cfpb's expected outcomes could be off by as much as 20%. to make matters worse, chairman hensarling also testified this rule is expected to increase the per person cost of purchasing an automobile by $586 per loan. i know that in eastern colorado, $

it was just a small rv.we had an opportunity, we were in rural ohio and we visited the town hall and did saw a couple arms. he is so fluent in the needs and concerns of the community. i would clearly defer to him because even though farms are small businesses, i had not really discussed with the farming community. se what their issues are. from the small businesses that i deal with, which really come across is really more access to capital and mentoring. >> what about cyber security? i have a question about cyber security. one of the biggest challenges to spell small business is from hacking and other it or cyber issues. what does the small business demonstration doing on its own and with homeland security and other agencies to protect small businesses on these threats? it can be sometimes more difficult for small business to deal with the threat like that. they don't maybe have the same computer department that a fortune 500 company would. part of what they're doing is making them aware. many of them don't

update and report on the office of small business and small business assistance center. department programs, policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor and announcements regarding small business activities. discussion item. >> commissioners, i'm -- i want to acknowledge that we had a really terrific small business week have the week. thank you for your participation and support and to, president adams, your leadership as one of our co-hosts, along with joey blazic, san francisco chamber of commerce. so thank you for that. we started out the week with inspire sf, with three businesses, matt cohen, with off the grid, who is the s.b.a. small business person of the year for 2018. sam mcgonahan with buy right. and lisa federman with a -- she creates the product -- >> it's a popular cooking technique that offers -- it's a machine that is easy to follow cookbook that harnesses the power -- i was going to order one of these and figure it out. it's supposed to tell you how to cook your food properly. >> it's a machine being used in restaurants that she's making

update and report on the office of small business and small business assistance center.epartment programs, policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor and announcements regarding small business activities. discussion item. >> commissioners, i'm -- i want to acknowledge that we had a really terrific small business week have the week. thank you for your participation and support and to, president adams, your leadership as one of our co-hosts, along with joey blazic, san francisco chamber of commerce. so thank you for that. we started out the week with inspire sf, with three businesses, matt cohen, with off the grid, who is the s.b.a. small business person of the year for 2018. sam

small business administration. coming from this end, we have allen schlafer, president of the horton club of washington, d.c. we have christine warenky, television host of "the next word" on mmctv channel 16, and a member of the national press club headliners committee who organized today's luncheon. we have andrea stone, ceo of dynamic pro. we have kevin wensing, retired u.s. navy captain and executive director of first global. he also helped organize today's event. thank you both. we have emil akan, senior business reporter. skipping over our speaker for just a moment, we have betsy fisher-martin, executive in residence at american university and co-chair of the national press club headliners team. thank you all for being here today. [ applause ] i would also like to acknowledge additional members of the headliners team responsible for organizing today's event, lisa matthews, lori rousseau, danny selnick, bill lord, and the press club staff, specifically, lindsey underwood, laura coker, and executive director bil

small business association. and coming from this end, we have alan slafort president of the horton club of washington d.c. we have christine, the television host of "the next word" on mmc-tv channel 16 and the member of a national headliner's committee who organized today's luncheon. we have andrea stone, we have kev kevin, a retired u.s. navy captain and president of first global, he also helped to organize today's event. thank you, both. we have a senior business reporter at epic times. skipping over our speaker for just a moment, we have bitsy fisher martin, executive in residence at american university and co-chair of the national press club headliner's team. thank you all for being here today. [applaus [applause]. >> i would also like to acknowledge additional members of the headliner's team responsible for organizing today's events. lisa mathews, lori rousseau, bill lord and the press club staff, specifically lindsey underwood, laura coker and executive director, bill mccarron. thank you. so, linda mcmahon

this, to me, is the best part of small business week is honoring all your local small businesses, so thank you. >>> thank you, commissioner adams. yes, you [applause] [laughter] >> julie: now we will turn it over to supervisor tang for our first honoree. >>> oh, thank you. i guess i get to go first since i was last last week. today it is my honor to bring up other avenues. i know we have many, many people here in the audience joining as well for the honoree shonta. you're welcome to join her at the podium. she's retiring after more than three decades of working with the other avenues community. [applause] >>> i want to welcome her to our chamber, her husband richard, her son and all of the workers and supporters who have joined her here today to accept this honor. having grown up in the sunset district, it's really clear to me that other avenues is not just a store. it's a community that has stood the test of time and one that has a timeless motto, healthy business, healthy people, healthy planet. other avenues was established in 1974 by food conspiracy, a grass roots organization of

i'm small property owner. so i know other rent controlled cities like l.a., santa monica and berkeley, all have pass through for property taxes, but not the service. the cities also have higher rent. also more than san francisco city. so please vote no. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is wendy. i'm here to oppose this legislation because as you can see, we have all the labor costs increase from $11 to $15 each, it's more than 30% increase. but the increase allowance of rent is less than 2%. and by the way, since 1992, the cpi is 60% from a $1-1.40. so you can tell by the numbers in long 16 years, the landlord only can allow to increase 40 cents per dollar. so this legislation is not fair. if you want to stop that, stop increasing our property tax. stop increasing the minimum salaries so this is fair situation. housing shortage is not small property owners problem. it's demand and supply. look at the number that you have, all this units, not small mom and pop property o

it starts very small. now it needs hundreds of thousands of square feet of space in order to hire all of their employees. that's what happens when you have an open internet. that's what happens when smaller companies, new companies online can raise the capital they need in order to finance their idea, in order to hire people who will advance this company's agenda across all 320 million people in the united states and ultimately for many of them, across the planet. but you have to start somewhere. and the only way in which it really works is if net neutrality, if nondiscrimination is the principle. so that's what we're going to be debating over the next week here on the senate floor. it's this fundamental issue of access to capital for the smallest companies and not allow five companies, the biggest companies determine who gets access. the principle of net neutrality, the principle of openness has worked. we have a whole vocabulary consisting of the names of companies who no one knew their names 20 years ag

a small business. again, i think just answering more questions around what's the process, how do i get ahold of a certified access specialists. the legislation that you heard at the last meeting with supervisor tang sponsoring legislation to attend the time frame, that was actually heard today in land use. she expedited it, so it -- included in the amendments were the recommendation that the commission made for the 30-day written notification to business tenants for any construction in the entryway or on the sidewalk. and then, we -- we -- between gi and myself, -- dbi and myse realized that some of the soft story ordinances are taking place right now, and they're making themselves accessible, so making not them having todum i didn't tell them hiring someone to fill out the check lists. if their enter way is being made fully accessible, they're allowed to meet the number of the check list. we've also put in a clause to allow for the director of the department to allow for any other similar type situati

as i said before, i'm a small property owner myself. i know that it is difficult to be a small property owner in this city, but i also know that these large corporations are the majority of people who are using this pass -- pass through. and so i asked my colleagues today, in light of everything that i have said about the housing crisis and affordability in san francisco, we can do one thing. this is -- we can do one thing to help stop the speculation. and many of these speculators are buying up these large apartment buildings and adding these pass throughs through so at the pointants are moving out, and they are now doing corporate long-term housing, which is two and three months, instead of renting them out to renters. so i ask my colleagues for support in this so that we can bring it to the full board. i'm hoping we can pass this out of committee with a positive recommendation. thank you today, again, to my colleagues here would have set aside the time to hear this important piece of legislation. and also, to all the tenants and the

small caps have been extremely insulated. >> a lot of small caps find their way in the energy space, too. energy has done well there are a number of great arguments you can make that russell will outperform. my biggest argument is people are behind the 8-ball, people are starting to catch up and i think it will manifest itself end of the year. the biggest news is the nasdaq >> let's also remember the financials, the smaller cap financials, a lot of these regionals make up a large component of the russell, too. i'm a big buyer of that sector so i thinkthat could help on outperform >> small caps. we're talking about regional banks consolidating, we're talking about companies in the russell 2000, aren't we? >> somewhat, but also remember they want to do big deals, too i don't think it's exclusive to the russell. it's probably one incremental thing. on the financials, if you want to isolate that, check out kre, which is a small cap, or regional bank etf, right that will get you basically your small cap banks throughout the country, u.s.-based. >> in terms of the charts, this is the russe

are small businesses. in fact, it's judith lynn's small business is what makes it possible for other businesses to open and function. i might be biased but the contribution of these small businesses to our city is almost immeasurable. they are not only employers but the services they offer are to educate children during the most important time of their lives. small businesses like the montessori children's center that judith operates allows parents to go back to work and support their own families. social and emotional supports are given not only to children but to the families themselves. a little about judith, it seems like many have been around the city for a long time and judith is no different. in 1976 judith lin and her partner at the time in the business opened up the montessori children's center, a school that embraced principles of child centered education promoting social justice, integrity and diversity. all in this little village in district 7 called -- prior to opening her center, judith actua

there's a small provider there. they have a certain amount of capital they are allocated every single year that deploys network infrastructure what's-- let's call it $30 million. that $30 million can be deployed to serve this geographic area and may pay a significant amount and attachment piece of local permitting fees. if we can streamline the cost and that $30 million can be expanded to a different geographic footprint and i spent time in some of those communities. there is a small high school that just got a new small cell deployed to it so that will be the key among others is how to drive down the regulatory cost associated with deployment and then the capital that will cover more communities. at the same time cities have a legitimate interest in getting their reasonable cost compensated for these deployments, so we have to balance. >> one of the things we have seen a lot about lately is that there's been-- seems like there was a lot of tension between the fcc democrats and the chairman in particular. the commis

as we all know, small business is the backbone of the community. and because it's people like todd that make us what we are. secondly, also, i would like to really appreciate the collaboration that's come between shop and dine 49 and district merchants. it has put small business on the map as well as the council. todd, thank you very much. also, all the best to you. congratulations. have a great time in new york. great city. i loved it when i was there. enjoy your stay over there. and i hope to visit you one of these days and we'll have a drink together. thank you. >> good afternoon. steven cornell. i want to add everything that henry said and what the president -- commissioner adams said. i've been doing this for a long time and it's always a pleasure to have somebody in government that i feel helps us out. and i thank todd and his team that has helped us do that. it's really great and i'm sorry he's going to leave. thank you. >> thank you. >> scott halgary. i would like to echo the thoughts about todd. he's been terrific to work with and as steve

commissioner put it, for the first time, small businesses could think big and consumers could shop small from anywhere in the world. think about that for a moment. small businesses can think big because they have access to the internet. and consumers can shop anywhere in the world, and shop in small companies anywhere in the world. the loss of net neutrality jeopardizes that progress. in every state, community and home across our nation, americans expect what are coming out of their tap, the flow and demand to be safe to tkreufrpg. they expect the lights in their home to go on thanks to the utility company that provides the electricity. and yes, they not only need and want to have access to the internet in the very same way. this is a utility and they need to be regulated as such. these providers should -- -- access to the information vital for our economy must be preserved. congress has a chance to put consumers and small businesses first and preent vent the f.c.c. from -- prevent the f.c.c. from bowg to -- bowing to public interest. i ask that my colleagues vote for s.j. res. 52. with

as i travel the state, i hear that all the time from small business owners. i'm happy to hear these stories. working here in ohio. everywhere from key corp who raised their minimum wage to smuckers who gave everybody a $1,000 bonus. all these things. but you know, it's not the big companies either. because the small companies, the little companies are doing just the same thing. 7 person business gave bonuses to their employees. small business, we have the first federal community bank in dover, thousand dollar bonus. it's working but you know what the greatest story is, when i walk into a restaurant and somebody walks up to me and says thank you. thank you because i got a couple extra hundred dollars in my check last month, and now i can put a little more away for college, or put a little more away and pay off my car loan. these are the stories that are working. this is why i'm so proud to be sitting here with the president and knowing that we together were able to put a tax plan together with his vision, and get it passed. thank you for being here. >> i have

small cell deployed to it. that will be the key among others is how do we drive down the regulatory cost associated with deployment and the capital will cover more communities. at the same time cities have legitimate interest in getting their reasonable cost compensated for these diplomas. if the balance these concerns. >> host: one of the things we see a lot about lately is that it seems there was tension between the fcc democrats and the chairman in particular with commissioner clyburn and they both said they'd been unable to schedule meetings and meetings have been canceled and i'm not asking you to respond on his behalf but what do you say is the state of relations right now at the fcc? is everything good? it seems like things are better now. >> guest: hi started at the staff in 2012 and i've had the pleasure of serving at the agency under four or five different chairs and i'm happy with her headed right now particularly in the process perspective. if you remember when he came in he adopted a new procedure

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please support this small business, possibly two small businesses. the parking alone may be limited to the space. >> thank you very much for your presentation. now, we will open it up to public comment for anyone who is here to speak in support of the appeal. you will have up to two minutes. >> hi. my name is dino, and i live at 85 sycamore street, which is around the corner from this particular lot. i've found this -- i'm in support of keeping them there. i think it would be a really great continued use in that area. in terms of nuisance, i don't understand the concern, specifically since this is the center of the mission and entertainment district. i was very bored to hear on the planning commission, miss milicent johnson said senior studio was kind of burrito-y. in addition, i don't think the planning commission should be overreaching in its decision making, they should not be fitting which types of businesses should be belonging where. i don't think that is the type of government that any of us advocate. in general, i just have concerns based on

charge more for internet to slow down website or block the website making it harder or possible or small businesses as the lifeblood of t the economy so the fcc pics clear winners and losers when it repeals net neutrality when that takes effect june 11, the big telecom will have new tools to inflate confidence that americans and small businesses use the internet to do their job and compete with each other to participate in civic life are left defenseless and don't be fooled by the lobbyist marching the halls of congress on behalf of the big internet service providers we say we don't need these rules because the isps will self regulate blocking or throttling with paid fire tradition they say they are hypothetical butha simply that is not the case. these practices are very real and in a world without neutrality it could become the new normal. don't just take my word for it but look at the facts in 2007 and associated press found comcast was blocking one website that allowed consumers to share video and music and video game files to force apple or b block skype or other competing services f

there is a small provider there. they have a certain amount of capital they allocate to deploy network infrastructure. that $30 million can be deployed to serve this geographic area. they are paying a significant amount with local permitting these. if we can streamline the cost, that amount can be expanded to a different geographic footprint. in woodstock virginia there is a high school that got a new small cell deployment. how do we drive down regulatory costs associated with deployment in the capital covering more communities. cities have legitimate interests in getting their regional costs compensated for deployment. we have to balance the concerns. great changes to the commission. we had a lot of discussions including net neutrality. we have never had an open dialogue. talking to each other is key. i am glad to see that right now i would continue to reach out to her and if we can find ways to come in you to communicate, i think that is very important. she has a strong voice at the commission. i welcome the chance

we are small and we are getting -- excuse me, we are small and we are getting the benefit as much as any big company goes. >> thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. you have to remember that these large companies that you keep hearing about, sort of plays into a certain narrative, most of the companies are owned by millions of shareholders and they're the beneficiaries, those are the people out there, whether they have a million or 2 million shareholders, those are the people that are getting the dividend or getting the stock increase, because you look at the stock prices, they are at all-time highs. when you hear the word large companies, most of them are owned by millions of people so everybody is benefiting, so you have to put that down and you have to remember that very important. tony, thank you very much, great job. [applause] >> just one final quote point and i hope this doesn't sound like a commercial, but i'm sincere when i tell you, president trump that we thank you for what you're doing for our business and small businesses and i think i speak for small businesses

it has a few small specialty stores, but you don't do your grocery shopping at small specialty stores. the -- the project would help small businesses, in fact, in that you would come to do your grocery shopping and then go to the specialty stores. i do that myself when i shop at trader joe's, and i go a block down the street to buy some food at the british food specialty store. i wouldn't go to the british food specialty store just to buy a meat pie and some bangers, but when i'm at trader joe's, i'm going to go and buy what i want. it does help the entire -- the entire neighborhood and the commercial district to have a full-service grocery store. russian hill neighbors, i just want to point out something regarding the vanness neighborhood coalition. russian hill neighbors is a member of that coalition. it is the largest organization and probably has, i would guess, as many members as all the other groups put together, and so i think that its weight is -- should be hedged accordingly. we strongly support this project. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you, sir. next speaker, pleas

small business.ave a first federal community bank in dover getting a bonus to full-time employees. do you know what the greatest story is in my travels of the state of ohio? when i walk into a restaurant and somebody says thank you. thank you because i got a couple extra hundred dollars in my check last month. now i can put more away for college, or i can put more away in pay off my car loan. -- and pay off my car loan. these are the stories that are working. this is why i'm so proud to be standing here or sitting here with the president and knowing we together were able to put a tax plan together with his vision and get it passed. thank you for being here. [applause] pres. trump: jim is really doing great. he really has a big shot at doing it. he has been a fantastic congressman. i really suspect you are going to be an even more fantastic senator. we need your vote and need your help so go out and help jim to get it done. [applause] >> thank you. pres. trump: tony, will you say a few words? >> mr. p

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many small banks were forced to shut down. regulation also made it nearly impossible for new banks to replace the ones that went out of business. made it totally impossible to open up new. almost nobody opened up new. in the past, scores of new banks formed every single year. in recent years, that number has plummeted. again, to almost zero. these community banks are vital for local lending and have a direct stake in the success of their neighborhoods and their states. local businesses have few other resources and few other ways of getting credit. and for many americans, these small banks are the only financial institutions in their entire community. they made their communities work and they've been essentially shut down. when these community banks closed their doors, it denies small businesses and everyday americans access to capital that they desperately need. by liberating small banks from excessive bureaucracy, and that's what it was, bureaucracy, we are unleashing the economic potential of our people. this legislation als

only a small part of the d.n.a. is inspected during this process the part that contains the molecular marker. scientific progress is at a point where the entire generation of a breeding line can be quickly tested in regards to one trait. that makes it a lot quicker because we can know before we put seeds in the ground what to expect and we aren't wasting as much time on individuals that have no hope of of her. the correct traits that we're interested in and so we can spend more time and more resources on the individuals that do have at least some of the traits we're interested in and then we can that we have markers for and then the rest of it we can field. a computer program provides proof of the results. every symbol represents a seed the blue ones will be disposed of the green ones are only partly tolerant of herbicides but the yellow ones are those that bird vandenberg and his team will later breed and observe on the university's test fields. in twenty sixteen canadian scientists succeeded in sequencing the firs

thanks to lower excise tax, casey jones distillery, a small operation in hopkinsville, is growing its team, increasing production, and planning to enhance its event space. copper and kings in louisville has been able to hire more workers and is preparing to expand its warehouse and add a new bar. the copper and kings team recently shared with me that tax reform is, quote, one of the most important initiatives the senate could pursue to help create jobs for small businesses in kentucky. my democratic colleagues failed to block tax reform last year. now they want to just keep arguing about it. they even propose to repeal it and roll back america's tax cuts, but entrepreneurs across the country are loving our new 21st century tax code. they're using it to expand operations and to create jobs. it's hard to argue with the results. not that that stopped our democratic friends from trying. i'm sure they will continue to try, but republicans will stay focused on taking steps like these and raising a glass to america's small businesses.

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