we did take a suggestion actually that John Lewis made, and it was actually incorporated before we even heard from John ...
We need to think somewhat out of the box.
I want to thank all of the panelists. This has been, I think, extremely helpful.
I know of a lot of businesses that are minority-owned, women-owned businesses that do not fall in rural and do not fall ...
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...
My concern is that imposing a moratorium freezes the CA lenders that we currently have.
But my information also shows that we do have regional gaps in having the availability of these programs.
Mr. Lewis, you mentioned the gaps that we have in regards to minority communities.
I appreciate your focus on these important issues. Thank you for all of your work on behalf of the citizens of Maryland.
So one way to improve it would be to give it a statutory basis.
Well, I want to thank this panel. Both panels have been extremely helpful.
If you are going to deal with the disparities that we heard about, the wealth disparity in this country, you have got to...
It might be useful for the Small Business Committee to get input into the Banking Committee as we deal with this issue.
As I said in the introduction to Mr. Manger's question, our Committee wants to work with the SBA to accomplish the missi...
I would like to see a picture, a copy of that picture. I will go over later.
I think the participation efforts ought to be longer than a year because you want the continuous work for minority busin...
The leading bank gave out 58 SBA 7(a) loans, and one of our largest banks gave out zero.
This bill--the Water Resources Development Act--is going to be important for our country.