I would like to begin this morning by extending our sincere thanks to the City of Phoenix, the University of Arizona, Senator John McCain, S...
It's a very small fraction, isn't it?
It's a step in the right direction.
Would the SBA be more effective if it became a direct lender again instead of working only through financial institutions?
Do you believe banks will want to participate in this? It's going to be a different kind of program.
But this is presumably for banks that wouldn't take the funds through another program.
So we know for a fact credit is shrinking.
SBA loans are what portion of total small business lending?
When the Government says it's going to put programs in to do more SBA lending, do we have any sense of how much leverage that's going to cre...
JOHN F. KERRY, Massachusetts
We have got to get this connected. We have got to get going here.
The FCC strategy, which I support, will combine the modernization of the Telephone Universal Service Fund.
It is shocking that in this year 2010, after all of the promises of 2004 and beyond, we are still strikingly disconnected in the United Stat...
The MassBroadband 123 proposal will build an open broadband backbone.
I support all of those initiatives, and, Madam Chair, I really appreciate this hearing. It is very, very important.
Thousands of my constituents have written in support of that.
I believe personally that the stimulus grants are working.
I really strongly support your effort to focus on ensuring that our small businesses are able to be the best connected in the world.
