I would be interested in hearing whether you could see your way toward supporting SCORE and seeing this as a critical program for your time as SBA Administrator, if you are confirmed.

As the lead Democratic appropriator on the subcommittee that funds the SBA, we also talked about how this is an area of general broad agreement on a bipartisan basis.

Thank you, Chairman Risch, Ranking Member Shaheen. Welcome, Mrs. McMahon.

I look forward to working with you on that.

I was pleased to hear the President say that under his plan, health insurance will be better and less expensive for all Americans.

Just an inquiry. You just consumed about 2 minutes beyond your opening statement.

There is a large building, and there are people in the large building. And there is a fire in the large building, but for some reason they cannot use the stairways and they cannot use the elevators.

What we sought to do with the ACA was to do something about it.

If you present your best judgment to the President that he is literally going down the wrong track... what would you do?

The last time we had a balanced budget... was fiscal years 1998 to 2001, the last four budgets of the Clinton Administration.

I would be careful about turning it around because I remember what it was 8 years ago.

He wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but the Committee for a Responsible Budget tells us that the cost of doing so in terms of our budget deficit is to increase it by anywhere from $150 to $350 billion.

He has spoken, as I am sure you know, in favor of a number of steps or actions that are of interest to us, I think to us all.

If we are interested in raising some revenues and not having to raise taxes, that is a good place to start.

The Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership, TPP, proposed to take down a lot of barriers overseas and enable us to have better access to those markets.

I think he may be also considering an executive order imposing a 5-percent tariff maybe on all imports.

I have discussed a lot of the trade issues with him.

my hope is that, when you all get settled in, you will go back--and when you are thinking about renegotiating NAFTA, make sure you understand what has already been done.