Small business cuts across all of the work within the United States Trade Representative.

I, along with my Ranking Member on the committee, Senator Snowe, and Chuck Schumer from New York, who has also been very active in this area, have called for an Assistant Trade Representative focused solely on small business within the…

Whatever helps our entrepreneurs helps our entire economy.

We are literally a main artery, if not the main artery, of our nation's commerce.

I want you to know the importance it is to us.

We work in a very bipartisan fashion on this committee.

I believe that the road out of this recovery is going to be led by small business.

We know that more than 2,300 Louisiana businesses exported goods.

Exporting has become one solution for small businesses looking to survive and grow.

Let us see if we can't get all these organizations actually honestly working together for the betterment of the companies and for the nation.

I want to recognize that her senior counsel is here, Mr. Wally Hsueh.

without a vision, people perish.

I encourage the Congress to work towards the passage of other trade agreements, such as Colombia and Panama.

We need to continue the highway program and continue that vital work.

We would suggest maximum flexibility to the President and the White House.

We should not borrow more money on top of everything we have borrowed over the last several months and the last several years to do it.

To me, at least, it seems like we are ignoring a core problem in the governmental sector.

though, it's too soon to tell just what the future holds but imagines his role would be more of an advocate, like Al Gore, rather than an elected office.