I want to thank personally in this hearing, Congressman Mike Ross from the State of Arkansas, who worked diligently with us to try to convince the Department of Defense to set aside a part of that contract.
Acknowledgment of Mike Ross's efforts to secure small business contract set-asides.
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FEMA needs to get moving. FEMA needs to rewrite their policy that will allow some of the 12,000 people they evicted this week from hotel rooms to be able to receive one of these manufactured homes.
FEMA needs to change its own rules. They need to throw the playbook down, write a new playbook and use a good dose of common sense.
We want them to come up here and pick these manufactured homes up -- all 11,000 of them and take them to the people who lost their homes and everything they owned in the Gulf Coast well over five months ago. This is five months past due…
I would beg you, increase it to 25 or 30 percent. Small businesses represent 50 percent of the GDP of this country.
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