IV 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 583 
Honoring the vital role of small business and the passion of entrepreneurs 
in the United States during ‘‘National Small Business Week’’, beginning 
on May 12, through May 16, 2014. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 13, 2014 
Mr. GOSAR (for himself, Mr. CA´RDENAS, Ms. BROWN of Florida, Mr. TIPTON, 
Ms. MATSUI, Mr. POCAN, Mr. KILMER, Mrs. MILLER of Michigan, Mr. 
SIMPSON, Mr. CHABOT, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, 
Mr. ENYART, Mr. BENISHEK, Mrs. NEGRETE MCLEOD, Ms. MCCOLLUM, 
Mr. VEASEY, Ms. TITUS, Mr. COSTA, Ms. TSONGAS, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. 
TAKANO, Mrs. WALORSKI, Mr. OWENS, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. GARCIA, Mr. 
SALMON, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. 
SWALWELL of California, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. BENTIVOLIO, Ms. 
BORDALLO, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. COLLINS of New York, 
Ms. CHU, Mrs. BUSTOS, Mr. MICHAUD, Ms. ESTY, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. 
JOYCE, and Mr. LOEBSACK) submitted the following resolution; which 
was referred to the Committee on Small Business 
RESOLUTION 
Honoring the vital role of small business and the passion 
of entrepreneurs in the United States during ‘‘National 
Small Business Week’’, beginning on May 12, through 
May 16, 2014. 
Whereas this year marks the 51st anniversary of ‘‘National 
Small Business Week’’ and has been endorsed by every 
President since 1963; 
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Whereas for the first time in its history four cities, including 
San Francisco, Kansas City, Boston, and Washington, 
DC, will host speakers and events celebrating National 
Small Business Week; 
Whereas the approximately 28,000,000 small businesses in 
the United States, which are the leading force behind the 
United States economy, creating nearly 7 out of every 10 
new jobs and generating close to 50 percent of the Na-
tion’s nonfarm gross domestic product; 
Whereas small firms accounted for 63 percent of net new jobs 
created between 1993 and mid-2013, and since the end 
of the recession small firms accounted for 60 percent of 
the net new jobs; 
Whereas 22,000,000 small businesses are nonemployer sole 
proprietorship firms; 
Whereas 2,450,000 veterans are small business owners and 
account for 9.1 percent of all United States businesses; 
Whereas woman owned firms have increased as a share of 
total businesses and include over 7,800,000 small busi-
nesses; 
Whereas small businesses employ 48.5 percent of the coun-
try’s private workforce; 
Whereas small businesses represent 37 percent of high-tech 
employment; 
Whereas small businesses produce 16 times more patents per 
employee than large patenting firms; 
Whereas small businesses represent 98 percent of all export-
ers and produce 33 percent of exported goods; 
Whereas on July 30, 1953, Congress created the Small Busi-
ness Administration to aid, counsel, assist, and protect 
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the interests of small businesses in order to preserve free 
and competitive enterprise, to ensure that a fair propor-
tion of the total sales of government property are made 
to small businesses, and to maintain and strengthen the 
overall economy of the United States; 
Whereas for more than 50 years, the Small Business Admin-
istration has helped over 10,000,000 entrepreneurs reach 
the American dream of creating and maintaining a small 
business, and has played a key role in fostering local and 
national economic growth; and 
Whereas the President has designated the week beginning 
May 12, 2014, as ‘‘National Small Business Week’’: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) honors the vital role of small business and 
entrepreneurs in the United States during ‘‘National 
Small Business Week’’; 
(2) supports the designation of ‘‘National Small 
Business Week’’; 
(3) recognizes the important role of the Small 
Business Administration as a valuable resource for 
the United States entrepreneur; 
(4) supports and encourages young entre-
preneurs to pursue their passions and create more 
start-up businesses; 
(5) recognizes the importance of creating poli-
cies that promote a business friendly environment 
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