Grace Napolitano: “We talk about funding small business and the engine of our economy, which is the small business, and yet we do not put…”

“We talk about funding small business and the engine of our economy, which is the small business, and yet we do not put money behind it to make it work. We talk like we want to help small business; yet we put billions, billions with a ``b,'' into loans, into grants, into whatever for the airline industry. We cannot put in 79 lousy million into small 7(a) loan programs, that for every $33,000 loaned, they would create one new job. Talk about $79 million versus $12.5 billion that we can be able to have our economy move forward; yet we are scrabbling around and arguing about why we should not take this money and invest it in the source of job development that this country so dearly needs. Let me ask the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Manzullo) and the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Velazquez), do they really think that it is the time to cut small business when we most need it?”