Profiles · Oversight
- Type
- Person
- Role
- Oversight and enforcement
- Updated
The profile
Member of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis and Chair of the House Small Business Committee, which has jurisdiction over the SBA (D-NY).
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Identity and role
Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), representative for New York's 7th District (GovTrack capture, which dates her House service from 1993); Chair of the House Committee on Small Business in the 116th–117th Congresses and a member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis chaired by James Clyburn (both cited to the House report page, whose capture is a stub). Roger Williams holds the House Small Business gavel in the 119th Congress (see his profile).
Biography / career arc
Not documented in any copy we have.
Pandemic-relief / PPP-EIDL role
Her committee has jurisdiction over the SBA; no document we have records her individual role in the Subcommittee's fintech inquiry.
Where they are now (2025–2026)
GovTrack's page lists her service as running to 2026; her November 2025 announcement that she would not seek reelection is cited to CBS News New York and her office.
Additional public-record notes
Lobbying & industry ties
No lobbying registrations (Member).
Documents on this site
Original source documents and archived copies
Sources
- OpenSecrets — Rep. Nydia Velázquez, campaign-finance summary (cid N00001102, mpid=1059415): https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/nydia-velazquez/us_congress/summary?mpid=1059415
- OpenSecrets — Velázquez contributors, 2022: OpenSecrets — Velázquez contributors, 2022 (original: opensecrets.org · stored capture)
- GovTrack — Rep. Nydia Velázquez: GovTrack — Rep. Nydia Velázquez (original: govtrack.us · stored capture)
- House Select Subcommittee fintech report (Dec 1, 2022): House Select Subcommittee fintech report Dec 1, 2022 (original: coronavirus-democrats-oversight.house.gov · stored capture) The House report is a partisan staff document released by the Democratic majority's staff in the final weeks of the 117th Congress, with no public hearing and no sworn testimony; an arbitrator refused it as "rank hearsay" that relied on companies then in arbitration with Womply, and a federal judge declined to take judicial notice of its findings (about the report).
- CBS News New York, on Velázquez announcing she will not seek reelection in 2026CBS New York - Breaking News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of NY (original: cbsnews.com) local copy
- Velázquez press release announcing retirement (Nov. 2025), velazquez.house.gov