This legislation will increase the capital available to small businesses, especially those in rural and underserved communities, manufacturing, or the critical technology sector, through Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs).
I will support legislation to increase the capital available to small businesses, especially those in rural and underserved communities, manufacturing, or the critical technology sector, through SBICs.
Occurrences
Evidence
The House Committee on Small Business said it held a hearing titled "Restoring America’s Industrial Base: The Role of Small Businesses in National Security," focused on small businesses’ contributions to innovation, critical technology development, and national security.
Assessments
The promise is specifically about supporting legislation that would increase small-business capital through SBICs, especially for rural, underserved, manufacturing, or critical-technology firms. In the record reviewed, there is official evidence of adjacent small-business committee activity, but not a clearly verified Meuser sponsorship, cosponsorship, vote, or other material advancement of SBIC-specific legislation that would satisfy the promise. Because he is still in office and the available evidence does not clearly establish either delivery or definitive failure, the best judgment is unresolved rather than delivered or never.