Sydney Rieckhoff.

The proprietor of a Cedar Rapids enterprise is in Washington, D.C., urging congress to modernize the Small Enterprise Administration. Sydney Rieckhoff is the CEO of Virtually Well-known Popcorn, an organization she co-founded along with her brother 10 years in the past when she was 14.

“Ninety-four p.c of small enterprise house owners suppose that congress ought to be part of collectively to reorganize the Small Enterprise Administration and actually modernize it to be a instrument and a useful resource for small companies throughout the nation that matches with the occasions, suits with the challenges that we really feel in the present day,” she says.

Rieckhoff’s firm obtained a Paycheck Safety Program grant at first of the pandemic. Reickhoff says whereas it helped hold workers on the corporate’s payroll, it uncovered issues within the Small Enterprise Administration. “Form of outdated procedures and insurance policies that happen in it,” she says.

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is the highest Republican on the Senate Small Enterprise Committee. Ernst says she and the Democrat who’s chair of the committee plan to work on a bipartisan plan that may result in a high to backside assessment of the Small Enterprise Administration.

“The best way Individuals did enterprise with Small Enterprise over twenty years in the past could be very completely different than the challenges and the know-how that small companies have in the present day,” Ernst says.

Ernst has invited Rieckhoff to be her visitor tonight within the U.S. Home to look at President Biden’s State of the Union speech. Congresswoman Ashley Hinson has invited Sergeant Trent Dirks of Eldora, an Afghanistan vet who trains canine to be service animals. Congressman Randy Feenstra’s visitor at tonight’s speech is the C-E-O of an organization constructing a $450 million beef processing facility in Mills County.