It is major. And two weeks ago we were out here with our women's group, Women First, and 14 of our women were here from across the United States.
I appreciate the suggestions you have made about how each agency should account for how the stimulus dollars are spent.
We are asking today that the Committee move expeditiously to pass the legislation drafted last year by Senators Kerry and Snowe as an amendm...
Well, I think with all exceptions on this contracting, go to 2007, the only area where we have achieved it was small disadvantaged businesse...
Half of all the procuring federal agencies have yet to achieve the women's business contracting goal.
That is terrible, at anytime, but especially now.
I think it is very important.
It means jobs. For every $140,000 that is spent in contracting dollars, it means one job.
And there is no doubt about it, except that oftentimes they are overwhelmed running their business on a daily basis.
I firmly believe that the Federal Government must unleash the job creation potential of small businesses to drive our nation's economic reco...
The Washington Post did a story today on tracking stimulus spending.