the cost of compliance, the cost of regulations within your various industries.
I want to thank all of you this morning for being the job creators in our country.
I am always looking for additional ways to help our returning soldiers, and my question is, do you have any insights on why this number migh...
The application for the small business funds that we passed last September is still open for... small and independent community banks to fil...
Well, in many instances, those smaller loans are the hardest ones for small business owners to actually have access to, and so I do think it...
It is all about jobs. We need to see what we can do at the Federal level to make a better business climate so that private industries can gr...
I am very appreciative of, Senator Landrieu, your commitment to doing oversight hearings.
I do think there is obviously a disparity, and through the SBA and through the lending practices, we certainly do need to step up and see wh...
We have also got to ensure that Federal contracting preferences designed to assist disadvantaged businesses are not subject to fraud and abu...
Encouraging entrepreneurship, I believe, is critically important to the sustained economic development and self-sufficiency in our underserv...
I was very pleased with the bill that we passed, the Small Business Jobs bill with the Small Business Lending Fund.
I believe that they are all multi-talented and passionate about the job that they do.
It is going to be vitally important that the decisions that are made at the VA do not lose focus on what the VA mission is and that is to pr...
I also want to welcome back the Committee's Ranking Minority Member, Richard Burr.
I am also concerned that VA may not have adequately addressed the need for sufficient resources for administering GI Bill education benefits...
I am encouraged to see that the Administration has increased funding for homeless programs and am hopeful that we will continue to see signi...
To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.
It was Ted Wade and Sarah Wade that I think played the biggest part in the creation of the Caregiver Act.
