Thank you for your extraordinary service during a very difficult time.

You made a commitment then to adequately fund those initiatives, and I thank you for following up on those commitments.

I believe it is contrary to law.

Senator Risch is right. Small businesses principal objective is to stay in business, to expand, and do what they do.

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I am proud also the way you have worked with this Committee. Senator Landrieu and your leadership, together we have made a huge difference in helping small business.

I want to add that the SBA has become an effective advocate for small business and that advocacy is not only in the public.

As Senator Hatch has pointed out, those who have committed the crime need to be held accountable for their actions.

I want to thank you for your leadership on this. I am proud to be a co-sponsor of your bill.

I would just urge us to follow Senator Nelson's leadership to minimize the use of the Social Security number much more than we use it today.

I do not think the IRA will substitute for an employer-provided incentive to save.

I think the budget that you have presented is balanced in that you look at ways in which we can manage our deficit and get it to a responsible level.

Do we have the ability to track how our assistance is being handled within Syria?

But in the auto-IRA, the one thing that we found out is that, for lower wage workers and younger workers, the tax incentive, in and of itself, is not enough to get them to put money into a retirement plan.

The crisis in Syria continues. Every day more people are dying. More people are leaving Syria.

I am deeply disappointed. We have gone through this many times in the last year or so, and I thought we had reached some understandings on Federal retirement contributions.

I have some concerns, putting it mildly.

We just want to make sure, and your record indicates that, but that is the type of Administrator we need.

The cost-benefit ratios of these laws are well-documented. Multiple factors of 40 to one in the costs associated with implementing these statutes and the benefits that we receive from clean water and clean air.

Let me say, Ms. McCarthy, you have a reputation, and I know some of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle have said this, of being true to your word, of being open, of being transparent.

If we don't get help from the Federal Government in enforcing clean air standards, even though we can do the best job possible in our State, our people will still be vulnerable because of inaction in other States.

I just would note that that rule was implemented only after I got a chance to speak.

The Baltimore Inner Harbor today is unfit for human contact about 73 percent of the time.