Kay Hagan

The problem with small businesses, they do not have a back room of all the staffers that have the time and are being paid to fill out that form.

That would be great. Thank you.

One of the problems, especially in rural areas, they have is a very, very slow dial-up, and that is something we obviously are working on.

I rise to join my colleagues in imploring Congress to provide needed assistance to our families, our communities, and our businesses suffering from the rash of natural disasters that have hit our country hard this year. While many of us…

I think eSRS has provided us a tremendous tool because, one, it is more real-time.

Early childhood years are the most formative of time for the brain, and the more we can do to help educate...

I can remember being in the State legislature and getting postcard after postcard from these individuals saying thank you for this stipend to help me be better trained.

In North Carolina, we've made really great strides. In 1993, under the leadership of former Governor Jim Hunt, we established Smart Start.

It is time to put a Director in place so that the Bureau can fulfill its important mission.

I hear from constituents all the time, particularly small businesses in North Carolina, and they too are frustrated because their premiums obviously continue to increase.

we are here debating the government's fiscal deficit. It is an important topic, one worthy of serious debate. Of course, I wish I could characterize the mindless partisanship of the last several months as serious debate, but I fear this…

But in North Carolina, we have about 19,000 biopharmaceutical jobs in our State, and it is such an important part of our economy, and I want to make sure we do all we can to invest in this sector and protect and attract even more jobs.

I'm concerned that there's a proposal to regulate laboratory diagnostic tests as medical devices, and they're already regulated under CLIA.

the review of the 510(k) products. It's become particularly burdensome, causing product approval delays and the frustration for the manufacturers, providers, and obviously the patients.

I would just urge you to help improve upon the efforts to provide frequent, transparent communication with the companies.

DOD plans to apply approximately $6.2 billion towards the design, development, procurement, test and evaluation, and deployment of the systems identified in question #4 over fiscal years 2012 to 2016.

Modernizing DOD's business systems is a key aspect of our overall effort to achieve auditability.

DOD has applied approximately $7.2 billion towards the design, development, procurement, test and evaluation, and deployment of these systems since their inception.

It seems to me that if the public really understood that all of this is literally taxpayer money, then they would feel differently about for-profit institutions.

if there is a predatory relationship with wounded warriors and enrolling them in classes, that would certainly, to me, be something that should be looked at in a much more in-depth situation.

I was very involved in being sure that we removed predatory lending from our military bases in North Carolina.

I believe this initiative offers a template for a successful integration between local and State communities around military installations.

I really do appreciate you holding this hearing today because I think that small businesses, new firms, are really the job creators in our Nation today.

we have got to be forward-thinking in our policies to be sure that small niche companies can grow and create jobs

Under Dodd-Frank it granted the CFPB certain supervisory and enforcement authorities over the payday lenders.