Political Quotes

“Mr. President, again, I thank my colleagues both, and particularly Senator Cardin, for that impassioned plea to focus this place on small business. If we are serious about creating jobs, then our focus, our effort, our work should be for the millions of small businesses out there that with just a little bit of tweaking, a little bit of help from an export initiative here, some regulation reform here, loan pools here, changing current law, could help them do what they want to do, which is expand and grow jobs. I see my colleagues are here to speak, so I am just going to take 1 minute to conclude. I wish my colleagues to know that while this package is five major bills, there is an initiative that is not in bill form yet, but we are very serious about bringing it forward. It is going to include a provision for there to be a pool of capital available. It may be the way Senator Cardin has envisioned it, which is direct loans from the SBA. It may be the way Senator Levin and Senator Warner have been talking about, which is an idea to provide guaranteed loan pools to leverage private capital in the country. It may be something Bill Clinton spoke with us about yesterday, which is creating a dynamic new opportunity to retrofit public buildings in America and put people to work and use the savings in energy efficiency to pay back the loans so there is no new taxpayer money spent.…”