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President for environment policy d social initiatives, part of apple s push to be seen as a good corporate citizen. just lasteek she released a statemt thataid addressing e urgent reat oclimate chan is a ypriority d call for enactmenof clean ergy standard. th s great, that asure included in presidt joe biden budget reconciliation bill, jacksos callchoes letterent to lawmaks in july advocatin for a clean ectricity standard, it signed by over 100 companies including apple. again, that s all good, that clean energy is very imrtant, the problem is that around the same time, ape was signing that letter, a group called the business roundtable was engaged ins their spokesperson put it a significant multi faceted campaign to fight corporate tax increases which is a key funding mechanism for the very same bill tt now includes the clean energy standar which has been converted to clean energy payments to utilities. ....
Paper trail were also vulnerable. senate republicans have blocked ae series of bills aim at strengthening u.s. elections. majority leader mcconnell blockedmc a house passed bill tt would authorize $775 million to bolster election systems. at wone point, minority leader asked to mandate the use of paper ballots but mcconnell called it partisan. a tax on our elections is a greateris threat to our nationa securityna as any other. yet, for reasons inexplicable, the republican leader refuses to pass. ....
So we tried to fill that void as the banks werewe getting well, makingul sure the small business could keep their doors open. but even by doubling the number of sba loans there s still not enough pital to meet the demand for small businesses across the country. that s why this bill tt we re looking to pass this week out of the senate and thatji jerry and jim already voted for is so simple. because what it would do is it authorizationding to provide to community banks who are most likely to give loans to small businesses. but it would say to those banks, you know what, we re going tobl hold you accountable for actually lending the money. so because what we don t want to do is just help the banks boost their balance sheets but they re never getting the money out of the door. over the long term, we think that there are going to be enormous opportunities for banks ....