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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 174 

Honoring the entrepreneurial spirit of small business concerns in the United 

States during National Small Business Week, beginning April 22, 2007. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 26, 2007 

Mr. KERRY (for himself, Ms. SNOWE, Ms. LANDRIEU, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. 

LIEBERMAN, Mr. BAYH, Mr. VITTER, Mr. COLEMAN, and Mr. CARDIN) 

submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring the entrepreneurial spirit of small business concerns in the United States during National Small Business Week, beginning April 22, 2007. 

Whereas the 25,800,000 small business concerns in the 

United States are the driving force behind the Nation’s 

economy, creating more than 2⁄3 of all net new jobs and 

generating more than 50 percent of the Nation’s nonfarm 

gross domestic product; 

Whereas small business concerns are the Nation’s innovators, 

advancing technology and productivity; 

Whereas small business concerns represent 97 percent of all 

exporters and produce 28.6 percent of exported goods; 

Whereas Congress established the Small Business Administration in 1953, to aid, counsel, assist, and protect the 


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interests of small business concerns in order to preserve 

free competitive enterprise, to ensure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts or subcontracts 

for property and services for the Federal Government be 

placed with small business concerns, to ensure that a fair 

proportion of the total sales of Government property be 

made to such small business concerns, and to maintain 

and strengthen the overall economy of the Nation; 

Whereas the Small Business Administration has helped small 

business concerns access critical lending opportunities, 

protected small business concerns from excessive Federal 

regulatory enforcement, played a key role in ensuring full 

and open competition for Government contracts, and improved the economic environment in which small business 

concerns compete; 

Whereas for over 50 years, the Small Business Administration has helped millions of entrepreneurs achieve the 

American dream of owning a small business concern, and 

has played a key role in fostering economic growth; and 

Whereas the President has designated the week beginning 

April 22, 2007 as ‘‘National Small Business Week’’: 

Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) honors the entrepreneurial spirit of small 

3 business concerns in the United States during Na4 tional Small Business Week, beginning April 22, 

5 2007; 

6 (2) applauds the efforts and achievements of 

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1 lence have made them a key part of the Nation’s 

2 economic vitality; 

3 (3) recognizes the work of the Small Business 

4 Administration and its resource partners in pro5 viding assistance to entrepreneurs and small busi6 ness concerns; 

7 (4) strongly urges the President to take steps 

8 to ensure that— 

9 (A) the applicable procurement goals for 

10 small business concerns, including the goals for 

11 small business concerns owned and controlled 

12 by service-disabled veterans, small business con13 cerns owned and controlled by women, 

14 HUBZone small business concerns, and small 

15 business concerns owned and controlled by so16 cially and economically disadvantaged individ17 uals, are reached by all Federal agencies; 

18 (B) guaranteed loans, including microloans 

19 and microloan technical assistance, for start-up 

20 and growing small business concerns and ven21 ture capital are made available to all qualified 

22 small business concerns; 

23 (C) the management assistance programs 

24 delivered by resource partners on behalf of the 

25 Small Business Administration, such as small 


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1 business development centers, women’s business 

2 centers, and the Service Corps of Retired Ex3 ecutives, are provided with the Federal re4 sources necessary to do their jobs; and 

5 (D) reforms to the disaster loan program 

6 of the Small Business Administration are imple7 mented as quickly as possible; and 

8 (5) urges that, as was the case in the Presi9 dent’s budget for fiscal year 2008, the Small Busi10 ness Administration continue to be designated as a 

11 major agency in the President’s budget submitted 

12 pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States 

13 Code, and that the Administrator of the Small Busi14 ness Administration have an active role as a member 

15 of the President’s Cabinet. 

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