"Should we have a greater emphasis on expanding capital and credit to manufacturers and, for that matter, any business that is going to improve the trade deficit?"
"I look forward to working with the Chairman to see what we can do to draft some bills to get some capital flowing until the banks can get back on line."
"With no capital available to these small businesses, we're going to have a record number of people that have either gone out, or are on the verge of going out."
"Small businesses need common sense solutions, the kinds that are both environmentally sound and economically viable."
"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."
"We must do better. America's small business need our help to create jobs and turn the economy around."
"I have introduced legislation to permanently extend the 2001-2003 tax cuts."
"Small companies need predictability in the tax code."