One would hope so. It seems to me, though, that--and I understand you want to keep this short and you want to keep it concise and easy to fill out, which is good. But to me, the most important thing after a disaster a person reaches for is…
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Jim Risch is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Idaho since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Risch previously held the position of lieutenant governor of Idaho from 2006 to 2009 and served in the Idaho State Senate from 2002 to 2006. Throughout his career, he has focused on issues such as government accountability and land management, reflecting the interests of his constituents in Idaho.
I am assuming you would agree with me that that is critical, the amount of insurance that they have, when people are looking to the Federal Government to step in and fill a gap.
We have been hit with a $60 billion request from--did that come from the White House?
When you do your due diligence, do you require that they satisfy you that they are fully insured for losses as to their structures, their inventory, their interruption of business and that sort of thing?
I assume if we want to know more about how you put those numbers together, we can get in touch--staff can get in touch with your shop to find that out?
So, theoretically, anybody with a small business loan will receive compensation from their insurance company as opposed to having an issue with coming to the SBA for it and just asking----
What part of that would be attributable to or within this committee's jurisdiction?
I doubt there is any argument amongst Americans or Congress or anyone else that small business is certainly one of the cornerstones of the American economy.





