Isabel Guzman: “All of us here have deserting constituents and businesses in our district in need of these loans.”

Yes, we have seen a 40 percent decline in small businesses participating in federal contracting.

Equity is a real key to ensure that we can continue to have a flow of contractors.

So clearly their impact is going to be stronger, the short term pain is going to be much harder felt on all of them.

I appreciate your expertise having run and successfully built a business with hundreds of employees.