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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 265 

Honoring the entrepreneurial spirit of small business concerns in the United 

States during National Small Business Week, which begins on June 

17, 2013. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 17, 2013 

Mr. CA ́RDENAS (for himself, Mr. TIPTON, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. DANNY K. 

DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. COFFMAN, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. OWENS, Mr. 

HINOJOSA, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. LOEBSACK, Mr. MICHAUD, Ms. GABBARD, 

Mr. HIMES, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. KILMER, Mr. VEASEY, Ms. HERRERA

BEUTLER, Mrs. BUSTOS, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. LOWENTHAL, 

Ms. BORDALLO, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. KIND, Ms. 

WILSON of Florida, Mr. COLLINS of New York, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. MURPHY of Florida, Ms. SINEMA, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. BARBER, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. TITUS, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. LUETKEMEYER, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. CLARKE, and Ms. BONAMICI) submitted the 

following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring the entrepreneurial spirit of small business concerns in the United States during National Small Business Week, which begins on June 17, 2013. 

Whereas this year marks the 50th anniversary of National 

Small Business Week; 

Whereas the approximately 27,900,000 small business concerns in the United States are the driving force behind 

the Nation’s economy, creating nearly 2 out of every 3 


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new jobs and generating close to 50 percent of the Nation’s nonfarm gross domestic product; 

Whereas small businesses are the driving force behind the 

economic recovery of the United States; 

Whereas small businesses represent 99.7 percent of employer 

firms in the United States; 

Whereas small business concerns are the Nation’s innovators, 

serving to advance technology and productivity; 

Whereas small business concerns represent 98 percent of all 

exporters and produce 31 percent of exported goods; 

Whereas Congress established the Small Business Administration in 1953 to aid, counsel, assist, and protect the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve 

free and competitive enterprise, to ensure that a fair proportion of the total Federal Government purchases, contracts, and subcontracts for property and services are 

placed with small business concerns, to ensure that a fair 

proportion of the total sales of Government property are 

made to such small business concerns, and to maintain 

and strengthen the overall economy of the United States; 

Whereas every year since 1963, the President has designated 

a ‘‘National Small Business Week’’ to recognize the contributions of small businesses to the economic well-being 

of the United States; 

Whereas in 2013, National Small Business Week will honor 

the estimated 27,900,000 small businesses in the United 

States; 

Whereas the Small Business Administration has helped small 

business concerns by providing access to critical lending 

opportunities, protecting small business concerns from 

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sure full and open competition for Government contracts, 

and improving the economic environment in which small 

business concerns compete; 

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

American dream of owning a small business, and has 

played a key role in fostering economic growth; and 

Whereas the President has designated the week beginning 

June 17, 2013, as ‘‘National Small Business Week’’: 

Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) honors the entrepreneurial spirit of small 

3 business concerns in the United States during Na4 tional Small Business Week; 

5 (2) applauds the efforts and achievements of 

6 the owners and employees of small business con7 cerns, whose hard work and commitment to excel8 lence have made such small business concerns a key 

9 part of the economic vitality of the United States; 

10 (3) recognizes the work of the Small Business 

11 Administration and its resource partners in pro12 viding assistance to entrepreneurs and small busi13 ness concerns; and 

14 (4) recognizes the importance of ensuring 

15 that— 

16 (A) guaranteed loans, including microloans 

17 and microloan technical assistance, for start-up 


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1 and growing small business concerns, and ven2 ture capital, are made available to all qualified 

3 small business concerns; 

4 (B) the management assistance programs 

5 delivered by resource partners on behalf of the 

6 Small Business Administration, such as Small 

7 Business Development Centers, Women’s Busi8 ness Centers, and the Service Corps of Retired 

9 Executives, are provided with the Federal re10 sources necessary to provide invaluable coun11 seling services to entrepreneurs in the United 

12 States; 

13 (C) the Small Business Administration 

14 continues to provide timely and efficient dis15 aster assistance so that small businesses in 

16 areas struck by natural or manmade disasters 

17 can quickly return to business to keep local 

18 economies alive in the aftermath of such disas19 ters; 

20 (D) affordable broadband Internet access 

21 is available to all people in the United States, 

22 particularly people in rural and underserved 

23 communities, so that small businesses can use 

24 the Internet to make their operations more 


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1 globally competitive while boosting local econo2 mies; 

3 (E) regulatory relief is provided to small 

4 businesses through the reduction of duplicative 

5 or unnecessary regulatory requirements that in6 crease costs for small businesses; and 

7 (F) leveling the playing field for con8 tracting opportunities remains a primary focus, 

9 so that small businesses, particularly minority10 owned small businesses, can compete for and 

11 win more of the $400,000,000,000 in contracts 

12 that the Federal Government enters into each 

13 year for goods and services. 

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