I have had recent town hall meetings and meetings with small business owners in Maryland, and they are very well attended.

There should be a Federal agency that is charged with saying, did small business get its fair share of this economic opportunity?

I am a believer that government contracting and government contracting for small business, and as I said, I think it is win-win.

I think we really have to give you many thanks for what you did on surety bonds in the Recovery Act.

I hope that you will look at this position as being an advocate and providing independent information.

Let me make it clear, we need an energy policy in this Country that will provide for energy security and deal with the greenhouse gas emissions and global climate change.

We could do a lot better. We made some progress, by the way, in the last Congress, and I want to see us continue to make progress to help vulnerable small businesses.

I am a strong advocate of it.

I would suggest that part of this is making a commitment to get the science answers to these questions.

Well, I appreciate that. I think that can be very helpful to us.

One of the strategies we have tried to use on energy efficiency and renewables is that it is good economic sense for Americans.