I would welcome the opportunity to make just a few comments, and I will put my full statement into the record.

As General Skinner knows, we have worked very closely together on some of the FEMA reforms and the anti-waste, fraud, and abuse legislation for the Department of Homeland Security.

In the last Congress, working with the Chairman as well as with Senators Lieberman and Levin, our Committee was able to pass important reforms to the Federal contracting process.

Last Congress, working with Senators Lieberman, McCaskill, and Levin, our Committee was able to pass important reforms to the Federal contracting process and to strengthen our Nation's IGs.

I have introduced a bipartisan bill with Senator Herb Kohl and Senator Voinovich that would seek to provide that authority across government.

Thank you, Madam Chairman.

Well, it is interesting because CNN Money on April 20th noted that only 14 percent of small business owners expect a positive impact from the stimulus, but more than twice that number, 31 percent, expect the impact of the stimulus to be…

we need to think of some kind of reasonable cyber training.

it is time to provide formal training on safe Internet use for students.

It is in Pakistan that al Qaeda's senior leadership and other trans-national extremist elements are located.

How will we assess whether the new strategy is working? How will we know if we're winning?

It seems to me that prior to going forward with the commitment of additional troops, that the administration should have already established specific benchmarks.

And when you talk about one of your three goals, which are absolutely right on target, to work across agencies, this is one area where you truly can, because they are required to meet a statutory goal, and repeatedly the agencies have…

It would be useful for you to look at that proposal, the Small Business Health Options Program Act, or SHOP Act.

It is crucial that the question as to whether or not it would be possible in the numerous stimulus programs benefit small businesses and so we must ensure that there is through oversight.

I appreciate that, because in just talking to some Maine bankers yesterday, they were indicating that some of these initiatives will be truly effective and crucial and helpful to small businesses.

I think that women are going to be leading the way.

I am honored to support Karen Mills' nomination to be the next Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).