03/29/2011
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"This is an absolutely vital program to protecting America, and I look forward to working together with you."
"I have long been dismayed by the myriad ways that government agencies have repeatedly time and again egregiously failed to meet its statutory goal of awarding the 23 percent of all contracting dollars..."
"I hope to learn today what practices the DOT is using to assist small business contractors."
"So the key question I pose this morning is why, since we have a 23 percent contracting goal, are only 10.3 percent of the stimulus dollars so far been awarded to small businesses?"