If the SBA can help these small businesses grow and prosper, jobs will be created and America will be able to compete anywhere in the world.

I hope that we can work out a bipartisan solution to access to health care for the country.

I have already indicated to Senator Snowe that I will be an original co-sponsor to her bill.

I strongly urge Ms. Mills to revisit this decision and allow small businesses that have majority investment by venture capital firms to be eligible to compete again in the SBIR program.

I will coordinate with other agencies, including Commerce and Labor and Energy, whose programs also affect small business.

These are problems we can fix.

I believe that President Obama's nominee, Karen Mills, has the right mix of experience, education, passion, and a willingness to serve.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

And the reason I pursue this line of questioning, and I do have two more brief questions, is because I have just completed with the good support of this Committee a 9-month investigation.

But the point is this, that our report also showed that the person who held your job before--I think it was Deputy Secretary Michael Jackson, is that correct?

I think this is one of the most important nominations that our President has made.

I want to call to your attention that this industry is being threatened by regulations that refuse to treat them in a different way than these large cargo vehicles.

So I bring it to you because if FEMA is going to stay in Homeland Security, then we have to have faith that the people running Homeland Security will give FEMA the attention it needs.

not every child gets to the Grand Canyon and not every child can get to Yosemite Park or to ski the beautiful slopes in Colorado

to dedicate a portion of the offshore oil and gas revenues

there is still a huge problem for people in the Gulf Coast area.

I hope that now President Obama can find a middle road between the kind of Government-private sector planning.

I think what America is looking for first are lower energy prices that are stable.

Would you outline for me... the significant differences in design or licensing requirements between the United States and other countries?

Nuclear meets all of those objectives and must be pushed forward with great haste.

I am a promoter of nuclear energy and power for this country.

What I am trying to communicate here is nothing about this is normal, and we need to have some flexibility or some modifications so that when these disasters happen, you take your normal government programs, but apply a screen of what a…

Yes, Mr. Klein, I am very impressed with your grasp of this issue.

I would hope so because you can imagine how heart-wrenching--that is really a good word--it is to me to have really pressed so hard from a policy perspective to have a rental repair program adopted.

So I hope you will take back to this new President that message, and to Secretary Donovan...