Given that reality, Senator Landrieu and I wrote to you on September 1 and again on September 13 asking you to extend the application deadline on the physical disaster loans from October 28, because a lot of people aren't even going to be…

Does that include, in fact, lending to them?

There is a clearly distinguishable, it seems to me, impact area and effect that we ought to be able to arrive at an agreement on.

Obviously, we want people to know it is different; and our goal is to make sure Katrina folks--well, we specifically put in the amendment, Senator Snowe and myself, a bipartisan effort with Senators Vitter and Landrieu, et cetera, that the…

I hope you will weigh in as heavily as possible to get those contracts out to small businesses, particularly the local and regional ones who are capable of delivering, as fast as possible.

Let us do that right here, right now.

Can you give us an answer today as to whether you will agree to do that?

Who are they going to get assistance from? Is it going to be clear to them from the outset that they get small business disaster assistance?

Well, do we need to put that into a bill?

Are you saying to me you are not supportive of that----

I am not ready to make a commitment today to do a Star loans II unless we really are able to understand exactly who is going to get those loans.