Political Quotes

“I voted and continue to support the war on terrorism, but we reach a certain point when we have to ask ourselves, when do we take care of our own? When do we take care of the little people? This is not an outrageous request to ask that we have level funding this year that we had last year; $79 million is a lot of money, but compared to how far it goes to continue the program is something else. The problem here is this: we all want to get away from this subsidy. I am in favor of a zero subsidy rate and have continued to work towards that each year that I have been chairman of the Committee on Small Business. To do it all at once at a time when the Fed has just increased the interest rate, when the unemployment in the district that I represent has just fallen below 10 percent, and at a time when small entrepreneurs continue to scramble for capital is simply unwise.”