Mary Landrieu: “Let me be very clear that in 1 hour, we will come to the end of a very long, important public and open debate on the…”

“Let me be very clear that in 1 hour, we will come to the end of a very long, important public and open debate on the best way we can help Main Street. This bill is not about Wall Street. We have had enough of those. This bill is not about big corporations; they take up 80 percent of the agenda in this place on any given day. This bill is about the 27 million small businesses that need the Members of the Senate to stand up for them today. If we can stand up for small businesses today, they will stand up for us and lift this country out of the worst recession since the Great Depression. I want to repeat that. It will not be the big banks that do this. It will not be the big international firms that do this.”