Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I will say this in conclusion, if the Senator will yield further, every one of us has small businesses in our States. The economic engine of Florida is small business. It is those very people who have come forth in this recession and have said they are having difficulty and, in many cases, cannot make financial ends meet because they cannot get the banks to lend to them. The big banks will lend to big customers. They are not fulfilling the obligation of lending to the entire community. The community banks wish to make those loans to small business and, yet, they say they are harassed by regulators. Here we have provided an avenue of money to flow through community banks to small business to help them make their financial ends meet. It is unconscionable that people in a parliamentary and partisan fashion would hold up this legislation. That is what I wanted to say, in conclusion, to the Senator from Louisiana.”