There is a real negative impact. Mr. Flesher, you said it. I am going to borrow that line from you. 'My estate is my company.' Bingo.

philosophically it makes people scratch their heads. Look, we are taxed when we make money. We are taxed when we grow businesses.

it is our job here to make life easier for you so that you can be productive and profitable and grow businesses and hire people.

This administration does not have an energy policy.

Excluding legitimate small businesses limits growth and harms the defense industrial base.

Most troubling is this decision of SBA's to combine related industries into common groups with one size standard.

It is important for us all to realize that we can better serve the taxpayer and our service members by ensuring that small businesses can compete for these contracts.

I am no Sam Graves, but we will do the best we can.

It is not your money. And this is what has the American people so worked up: $8,000 is a lot of money.

But Mr. Foley, what made you feel like you could joke about it to begin with?

First, it requires that the SBA make publicly available its analysis and rationale when revising size standards or creating new ones.