Congress must act now to save small businesses like mine Rayford, Iman and Leslie McFarland, the management team at 21st Century Expo Group. Last Thursday, I had the honor to testify in front of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. My message to the committee was simple: time is running out for small businesses like mine. Unless Congress acts immediately to provide emergency relief, Main Streets across America — including in my county of Prince George’s — might as well hang up a giant “Out of Business” signs come January. This is not where my fellow small business owners and I expected to be when this year started. My business partners, who happen to be my parents, and I began 2020 with plans to expand 21st Century Expo Group, the business they founded nearly 30 years ago in the basement of my childhood home.