"As part of the omnibus legislation passed last year, Congress increased the leverage allowable to the SBICs from $225 million to $350 million."
"Let's shift. The Department of Commerce operates regional cluster initiatives, which received about $10 million in fiscal year 2015 and $15 million in fiscal year 2016."
"That is what we are needing to try to find out because our understanding is we are not supposed to be duplicative with this."
"Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day. We thank you for the blessings of this day."
"This shows why rural economic development is so important to supporting agriculture."
"It seems to me that small farmers and ranchers have been neglected for too long."
"Farming looks mighty easy when the plow is a pencil and you are a thousand miles from a corn field."
"I want to thank you for bringing this up before the Subcommittee, and I would encourage everybody for an aye vote to try to move it on to the Full Committee."
"We would also like to commend Representatives Bost and Meng for introducing H.R. 3714, to modernize small business size standards for farmers and ranchers."
"I simply don't understand why in the year 2015 we are still relying on the U.S. Postal Service or a fax machine to submit VA paperwork."
"VA has to figure out what type of sensible metrics will be used or Congress will make them up for you."
"It shouldn't happen."