Thank you, Madam Chairman, for having this hearing and choosing an initiative that is so critically important to business and to agriculture.

It is really, really awful to have a radical environmental group sue the government and they are really after you.

I think that is one of the greatest concerns we all have.

the courts will probably end up deciding what is going to happen and what our fate is going to be.

I have introduced legislation to permanently extend the 2001-2003 tax cuts.

You cannot do all of those things on the backs of small business; and you need to be careful about trying to do all of those things before the end of the year.

We must do better. America's small business need our help to create jobs and turn the economy around.

only $200 billion of ARRA's 787 billion are actually being provided in funds and being committed.

If we allow the 2001-2003 tax cuts to expire and then put on top of them additional taxes... we are looking at close to 65 percent tax rates for small business people.

Small companies need predictability in the tax code.

We need to confirm them head on within innovative solutions.