in our Spotlight on business tonight freshman Congressman Rob Menendez took a tour of the Ironbound section of Newark today bringing attention to some of its small businesses like restaurants and cafes for National Small Business Week Menendez used the moment to stress the importance of investment in small neighborhood businesses and in New Jersey's downtowns as a whole UC live business thriving here on Ferry Street so I think you have to be at least someone satisfied that it achieved its Baseline issue there's always going to be things that we can improve hopefully we or we have a more resilient economy we're facing a lot of challenges right now but um It's always important the federal government steps out when it needs to to ensure that businesses like this are able to stay open and Thrive I went to law school at Rutgers so I spent a lot of time in the iron bound it has a great set of legislators here to port for the business report provided by the Chamber of Commerce Southern New Jersey working for economic Prosperity by uniting business and Community leaders for 150 years membership and event information online at chamber snj.com