On the recordJuly 22, 2010
We are now on a very important bill, the small business jobs growth bill. It is a bill that actually many of us on both sides of the aisle...have contributed immensely to the building of a bill that we think holds a great deal of promise for small businesses throughout our country that have been beaten and battered. But amazingly, in many places, these businesses, despite all the odds, are hanging on and they are looking for some help. That is what this bill attempts to do--to build strong partnerships with the private sector, to use the resources that are already out there, most notably, our community banks, our small banks. There are over 8,000 of them. We have not heard a lot about those banks...We have not heard about small community banks and small businesses--the 27 million of them that are struggling in America today. This bill finally--finally--has reached the floor of the Senate.
