As I told you when I was here a few weeks ago, and I sincerely mean, our top priority at SBA is to maximize opportunity for small businesses and ensure the benefits of our programs flow to the intended recipients.

We talk a lot about when we are engaging with small businesses and getting them up to speed to sell to the government about being contract ready.

We can take the suspension action.

In terms of the suspensions and debarments, we stepped it up quite a bit.

Well, this presumption of law is new so it is still being stood up.

So what I would suggest to all my colleagues, they are not down on Wall Street, protesting, or anywhere in this country protesting, because they are too busy out looking for work.

Deny them unemployment insurance, deny them that, maybe deny their ability to keep their home and pay for their kids to grow up properly, you are going to find them--these are not just a rabble who are down at Wall Street, these are not…

A great portion of what the President is talking about is not just unemployment--this is part of it--but he is talking about investment in infrastructure, he is talking about helping create employment so that we can help people help…

So these folks aren't sitting home and just collecting a check. They have to be out looking for work, looking for a job.

Boy, I wish we all were North Dakota, I wish we all had a 3.5 percent unemployment rate.

Now, at $1,620 per month in New York--and that is for a $350,000 home...

The--what I would remind my colleagues is that this portion, the UI benefit extension, is part of--part and parcel of--the President's overall jobs creator, jobs bill creating jobs.

Nothing in that bill tightens them.

The fact is that I never said there was nothing in the bill that would restrain businesses.

I am very proud that we restrained the kind of credit default swaps that AIG engaged in with no ability to repay.

And they are critical services. I want to hear actually later in the testimony, and thank you for the work you have done, Dr. Draper, to point out why this is not working after going on now 4 years.

Thank you, Dr. Draper, for being here. And let me just start out by saying that this should be something we are really good at.

That is ridiculous.