I have already indicated to Senator Snowe that I will be an original co-sponsor to her bill.
I strongly believe that the SBA Administrator should have a seat at the table on important economic and financial matters in the Administrat...
I want to thank Senator Cardin, who will be with us later this morning.
I have a long history of being deeply involved in small business.
If the SBA can help these small businesses grow and prosper, jobs will be created and America will be able to compete anywhere in the world.
I hope that we can work out a bipartisan solution to access to health care for the country.
I strongly support mending, not ending, the program.
I will coordinate with other agencies, including Commerce and Labor and Energy, whose programs also affect small business.
These are problems we can fix.
And the reason I pursue this line of questioning, and I do have two more brief questions, is because I have just completed with the good sup...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I want to call to your attention that this industry is being threatened by regulations that refuse to treat them in a different way than the...
I think this is one of the most important nominations that our President has made.
So I bring it to you because if FEMA is going to stay in Homeland Security, then we have to have faith that the people running Homeland Secu...
But the point is this, that our report also showed that the person who held your job before--I think it was Deputy Secretary Michael Jackson...
Could you give any specific examples since Three Mile Island, not so much Three Mile Island, but since then, of how operating experience has...
I believe there is an excellent opportunity on this subcommittee to work in a bipartisan manner to get some good things done.
We need to pursue that aggressively and effectively to meet all of our energy and related environmental goals.