I just want to express some concern also about the President's budget in the area of the zeroing out of the rural empowe...
Half of all the procuring federal agencies have yet to achieve the women's business contracting goal.
Well, I think with all exceptions on this contracting, go to 2007, the only area where we have achieved it was small dis...
I think that it is key to be at the front end of it to identify those opportunities and not when it is too late.
We are asking today that the Committee move expeditiously to pass the legislation drafted last year by Senators Kerry an...
I am glad the omnibus legislation removed the rule of women's contracting goals of the SBA because it was not right.
The Washington Post did a story today on tracking stimulus spending.
I firmly believe that the Federal Government must unleash the job creation potential of small businesses to drive our na...
And there is no doubt about it, except that oftentimes they are overwhelmed running their business on a daily basis.
It means jobs. For every $140,000 that is spent in contracting dollars, it means one job.
I think it is very important.
That is terrible, at anytime, but especially now.
So we want to see that steady increase keep going and not plateau until it is at or above the 23 percent.
Because it is critical that we do it now because of this number, before it is too late.
Well, if I was running a small business, what would be the first step?
We need more emphasis on military construction to properly modernize and maintain the industrial infrastructure to suppo...
Can you assure us that you will work with the Maine Congressional Delegation to ensure that these facilities are constru...
I continue to be concerned about the lack of alignment between the branches' funding timelines.
