I know of a lot of businesses that are minority-owned, women-owned businesses that do not fall in rural and do not fall ...
As I said in the introduction to Mr. Manger's question, our Committee wants to work with the SBA to accomplish the missi...
So one way to improve it would be to give it a statutory basis.
Thank you, Dr. Wilson. I appreciate it very, very much.
we did take a suggestion actually that John Lewis made, and it was actually incorporated before we even heard from John ...
I share that concern.
I do not know if that is accurate. The fee waiver seems to have been very effective in helping underserved businesses.
Mr. Lewis, you mentioned the gaps that we have in regards to minority communities.
But my information also shows that we do have regional gaps in having the availability of these programs.
I just hope we can evaluate that because we do think there are a lot--I mean, I know a lot of parts of Maryland that hav...
The leading bank gave out 58 SBA 7(a) loans, and one of our largest banks gave out zero.
I do urge you to let us have additional thoughts on how we can refine the specific programs for access to capital or whe...
This is an issue that Democrats and Republicans can come together with. We can get something done, and I think this hear...
This is an oversight hearing for us to get input as to how our Committee can work with the SBA to improve the opportunit...
Sometimes the banking regulations and the rules and regulations make it difficult to do what you think is right.
We need to think somewhat out of the box.
If you are coming out of prison, I am sure your credit score is not exactly that high.
We have too many people who we lose in our economy that need an opportunity.