Blaine Luetkemeyer: “I am interested to hear from the panel before us on how lenders and businesses view the program, areas that should be…”

I can tell you I was part of the group that put the PPP program together. And I can tell you I was very strenuous in my concerns about allowing the fintech companies in.

I hate this rule. I fought it from the very beginning and once it got implemented we were trying to figure out how to make it minimally impactful on our folks.

There is discomfort and disquiet out there in the small business community that they are going to get in trouble for trying to comply with something they can't understand

This is unbelievable. I can't get a straight answer. It took me 3 minutes to get an answer on that question.