Ed Perlmutter: “I would remind the Speaker and others that we're here on the small business lending bill, not on Mr. Chaffetz's proposal…”

“I would remind the Speaker and others that we're here on the small business lending bill, not on Mr. Chaffetz's proposal or any proposal like that. It may have merit at another time when that bill, itself, is brought forward, but we're here to talk about the small business lending bill, which provides community banks, smaller banks with funds to make credit available to the small businesses on Main Street that were hurt by the crash on Wall Street. So I would just remind the Speaker as to what this bill, the underlying bill, is. With that, I reserve the balance of my time.”