I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.