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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that small and minority-owned businesses in the United States should be involved in rebuilding Iraq.

Introduced: May 1, 2003 See on congress.gov
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May 1, 2003
Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
May 1, 2003
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the U.S. Government should be actively involved in promoting American small and minority-owned businesses to help rebuild Iraq; (2) the Administrators of the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the United States Agency for International Development and the Secretaries of Commerce, Defense, and State should cooperate in providing assistance to American small and minority-owned businesses seeking to become involved in such rebuilding; and (3) the SBA Administrator should conduct a public information campaign using local and national offices to advise American small and minority-owned businesses about becoming involved in such activities.
What's happening now May 1, 2003

Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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All 2 Democratic 2
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Case, Ed
Hawaii · May 13, 2003
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Velázquez, Nydia M.
New York · May 1, 2003
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Res. 214: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that small and minority-owned businesses in the United States should be involved in rebuilding Iraq.. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HRES-214/
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"H. Res. 214: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that small and minority-owned businesses in the United States should be involved in rebuilding Iraq.." 108th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HRES-214/.
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H. Res. 214, 108th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HRES-214/.
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