We have actually passed a bill in the Senate.
One of the issues that concerns me, and I think others, is the question of coordination with other agencies.
What about the people who don't know about it?
I am trying to figure out where we are.
Are you saying to me you are not supportive of that----
Well, do we need to put that into a bill?
Who are they going to get assistance from? Is it going to be clear to them from the outset that they get small business disaster assistance?
Have you had any evidence that you are not able to keep up with the demand at this point?
Can you give us an answer today as to whether you will agree to do that?
I am not ready to make a commitment today to do a Star loans II unless we really are able to understand exactly who is going to get those lo...
Let us do that right here, right now.
I hope you will weigh in as heavily as possible to get those contracts out to small businesses, particularly the local and regional ones who...
Okay. So they will qualify?
Obviously, we want people to know it is different; and our goal is to make sure Katrina folks--well, we specifically put in the amendment, S...
Does that include, in fact, lending to them?
There is a clearly distinguishable, it seems to me, impact area and effect that we ought to be able to arrive at an agreement on.
I just want to make sure we don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
My interest is not to go backwards into that right now. My interest is to make sure that it doesn't stand as an impediment to our ability to...
