I am getting very involved in this myself.

The administration did not follow the priorities set forth in the judiciary's 5-year courthouse project plan.

An analysis of the Obama administration budget proposal by the Congressional Budget Office projects that the public debt ratio will double in 10 years, to 82 percent of GDP.

I think not only about the dollars that we're going to bring in directly, but also about the deterrent effect.

I just want to associate myself with the chairman's last question to express concern about the need for more enforcement and education to deal with these scams.

I just want to express some concern also about the President's budget in the area of the zeroing out of the rural empowerment zones...

It is major. And two weeks ago we were out here with our women's group, Women First, and 14 of our women were here from across the United States.

If the DBE program goes away, which is the backbone of our country, so will the majority small business companies that do under 17 million three years annually.

I would like to see every small business set-aside have a footnote in there that they come to their local PTAC.

This is simply unacceptable. I hope if anything that is learned from this hearing is that small businesses deserve their fair share of federal funds.

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 nation's economic recovery.

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.

Half of all the procuring federal agencies have yet to achieve the women's business contracting goal.