IV 
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 Flor-
ida, Mr. MURPHY of Florida, Ms. SINEMA, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. COURT-
NEY, Mr. BARBER, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. TITUS, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. LUETKE-
MEYER, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. CLARKE, and Ms. BONAMICI) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Small Busi-
ness 
RESOLUTION 
Honoring the entrepreneurial spirit of small business con-
cerns in the United States during National Small Busi-
ness 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 con-
cerns 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 Na-
tion’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 Adminis-
tration in 1953 to aid, counsel, assist, and protect the in-
terests of small business concerns in order to preserve 
free and competitive enterprise, to ensure that a fair pro-
portion of the total Federal Government purchases, con-
tracts, 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 con-
tributions 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 
excessive Federal regulatory enforcement, helping to en-
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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 Admin-
istration 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 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) honors the entrepreneurial spirit of small 
business concerns in the United States during Na-
tional Small Business Week; 
(2) applauds the efforts and achievements of 
the owners and employees of small business con-
cerns, whose hard work and commitment to excel-
lence have made such small business concerns a key 
part of the economic vitality of the United States; 
(3) recognizes the work of the Small Business 
Administration and its resource partners in pro-
viding assistance to entrepreneurs and small busi-
ness concerns; and 
(4) recognizes the importance of ensuring 
that— 
(A) guaranteed loans, including microloans 
and microloan technical assistance, for start-up 
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and growing small business concerns, and ven-
ture capital, are made available to all qualified 
small business concerns; 
(B) the management assistance programs 
delivered by resource partners on behalf of the 
Small Business Administration, such as Small 
Business Development Centers, Women’s Busi-
ness Centers, and the Service Corps of Retired 
Executives, are provided with the Federal re-
sources necessary to provide invaluable coun-
seling services to entrepreneurs in the United 
States; 
(C) the Small Business Administration 
continues to provide timely and efficient dis-
aster assistance so that small businesses in 
areas struck by natural or manmade disasters 
can quickly return to business to keep local 
economies alive in the aftermath of such disas-
ters; 
(D) affordable broadband Internet access 
is available to all people in the United States, 
particularly people in rural and underserved 
communities, so that small businesses can use 
the Internet to make their operations more 
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