I would say that your budget is not adequate to carry out the responsibilities that you have been asked to do.

there are wonderful businesses out there that need these loans and need these guarantees.

we can be introducing a whole variety of inflationary effects we haven't even begun to think of.

It will cost more.

the individual mandate is really in effect about making insurance companies whole.

I think it is a personal responsibility, and so things that we can do to promote that type of ownership of your own health care destiny are really important.

The increasing cost of health care is hurting both businesses and workers.

So now we have talked about a number of provisions in the health law which, as you have stated, will raise costs for employers.

we are seeing multiple problems with the establishment of exchanges, which seem to be falling behind.

According to the SBA, small businesses are responsible for employing roughly half of all working Americans.

There is nothing small about small business in America.

I think, I don't want to mischaracterize, you know so much more than me. I am trying to understand, I am the pupil here.

In his fiscal year 2013 request for the SBA, President Obama once again signaled his commitment to our nation's nearly 28 million small businesses.

I would like to see these programs expand. I know there is some subsidy required to do that.

The other good feedback we are getting, Senator Snowe, is from our state partners, particularly Michigan and North Carolina.

I would like to see if there is some other way to recoup those dollars to the Federal Treasury.

I think it is a really important fact to get out there, that while banks are making small business loans and the volume is greater than the SBA, their loans are short-term in nature and they are not helping small businesses.

the last thing that I am going to do is sit here as the Chair of this Committee and allow the sort of overseer and regulator of the SBA do the same thing that some of the regulators are doing to small business banks, and you will…