"How many people have you hired in the last 10 months? How many of those in South Florida?"
"A month ago, the Inspector General found that women and minorities are not getting their fair share of receiving small business government contracts."
"the federal government's fault."
"small businesses are critical to our nation's security, innovation, and the economy."
"The current category's management efforts appear to be benefitting the few to the detriment of many."
"we have lost over one-third of our small contractors in less than 10 years."
"the federal procurement environment has become so hostile to new small businesses that they just do not even try."
"I promised my constituents in District 27 that one of my goals from this office... was to make thousands of small business owners vendors of the federal government."
"Absolutely. This cannot happen and I thank you very much for sharing this testimony."
"The decline of small business federal contractors to inflate directly to healthy competition and innovation."
"We need to act now to stop this axis and we at the federal level need to figure out what is happening."