I have to work with honorable people, people that I can trust, people that have a culture within their company of having the integrity of knowing where the lines are and not crossing the lines.

I think that it is pretty simple. It is right up front, and I would think that the culture of the SBA should be if people are found to be in violation of these standards, there should be an immediate severance of the contract if you have…

We are grateful to the Members of Congress who signed onto a letter circulated by Congressmen Tim Walz and Steve King.

Through the Bush Administration, I watched Democratics line up and incrementally start walking away from free trade.

I very much encourage, as emphatically as possible, an aggressive effort to open up that trade with China but also Korea, Colombia, and Panama.

I appreciate a broad and aggressive approach to this. I think it sends the right message to the pork industry.

We need to do that so we can see more demand in this market and see some recovery after this perfect storm that we have seen in the pork industry.

I give President Clinton significant credit for supporting trade agreements and holding Democrats together to get enough votes to actually pass them.

I would like to ask you to point out which country is the most likely to be defined as a free trade country.

If the PATRIOT Act has saved at this point hypothetically but uncountable American lives.

And I thank the witness for his testimony here.

In my opinion, the tax policies proposed by the White House combined with the cap and trade bill passed by the U.S. House would be the largest money grab on small business in the history of our country.

Okay. Thank you. And that is just an interesting string there, and so it raises a number of questions in my mind.

I have watched this unfold over the last years since September 11, and it appears to me that we are moving in a direction away from national security.

Those Uighurs, if resettled here in the United States, would contribute to the United States because they are opposed to al-Qaida and Taliban.

I dare say they are more aptly described as the Tibetans who are persecuted by the Communist Chinese intelligence agents.

I don't think enemy combatants... have ever been treated as good as the inmates are down at Guantanamo Bay.

I don't believe that there has been any place or any time in history that--I won't declare them to be, let's say, accused terrorists. I will say they are enemy combatants.

But it has not been redefined in law.

I would ask Mr. Johnson if you could restate again or read to the Committee the exceptions that may be considered on evidence gathering.

None on the panel? That makes a point that I wanted to hear made today and I thank you all for your testimony.

And I think you are a testimonial to that as well, Mr. Williams, and I thank you for being here.

It would seem to me--and I thank all the witnesses. It would seem to me that in the United States of America, if you own something that I think we all on this panel would describe as a property right, that there should be some recourse to…

And I support the idea of doing all we can to keep you all around.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Appreciate being recognized and appreciate your testimony, Mr. Bloom.