September 24, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 166 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

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                   HELPING AMERICA'S SMALL BUSINESSES

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, normally, we would do the colloquy with the 
majority leader. He and I will not be doing that this week, but I know 
we do still have real concerns about those families and businesses that 
are struggling today through these difficult times. Many of those 
businesses were able to get relief through the Paycheck Protection 
Program, a program that we all came together to get agreement on, to 
help millions of small businesses. Over 50 million jobs were saved by 
that program.
  We also know there is about $138 billion still remaining in that 
fund, but the fund has expired. So I want to bring attention to things 
we can do together to alleviate that, to help those small businesses 
with that remaining money, and to talk about that more.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Herrera 
Beutler).


 Request to Discharge Committee from Further Consideration of H.R. 8265

  Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Small Business be discharged from further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 8265) to extend the Paycheck Protection Program access 
for small businesses, to extend the lifeline that southwest Washington 
businesses--over 9,500 have taken advantage of, and have saved 92,000 
jobs in southwest Washington and across this country, and ask for its 
immediate consideration in the House.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under guidelines consistently issued by 
successive Speakers, as recorded in section 956 of the House Rules and 
the Manual, the Chair is constrained not to entertain the request 
unless it has been cleared by the bipartisan floor and committee 
leaderships.
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, we will still push the majority to put that 
bill on the suspension calendar. We have no doubt it would pass 
overwhelmingly. We will continue to fight for those small businesses.

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