Kay Hagan

Encouraging entrepreneurship, I believe, is critically important to the sustained economic development and self-sufficiency in our underserved communities.

I do think there is obviously a disparity, and through the SBA and through the lending practices, we certainly do need to step up and see what we can do to proactively help change that.

Well, in many instances, those smaller loans are the hardest ones for small business owners to actually have access to, and so I do think it is important that you continue focusing in that area.

It is all about jobs. We need to see what we can do at the Federal level to make a better business climate so that private industries can grow and hire more people.

I am very appreciative of, Senator Landrieu, your commitment to doing oversight hearings.

We are really concerned about not making it so restrictive that we cannot have as many well-qualified loans as possible.

The FOMC has used unconventional monetary policy tools since late 2008 to promote economic recovery and price stability.

I rise today to urge the Senate to quickly pass a long-term extension of the Trade Adjustment Assistance, TAA, program for workers, as well as the Andean Trade Preference program. These programs make our workforce more competitive in the…

I think that is critically important.

The international security environment, particularly in cyberspace, continues to evolve.

We need to expand threat finance operations into the Theater Special Operations Commands (TSOCs) and develop our capabilities in the collection and processing of threat finance information.

Secretary-designate Panetta has expressed concern about the shifting of al Qaeda to 'nodes' outside of Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

I think from a fairness standpoint, from the promotion, it certainly has to be on a level playing field.

If we have to break our BOG-dwell because of an emergency for this Nation, we're there.

I think the collaboration is obviously very important to getting the right vehicle at the right time for the right price.

please look at TRICARE. So many of the individuals are having trouble having TRICARE accepted in places that are outside the actual bases.

I am a strong supporter of the F-35B. It does provide the Marine Corps with the capability to launch from the large-deck amphibious ships.

The United States intends to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy.

I think it would be important to the industrial base to be sure that probation would be removed as quickly as those issues are taken care of.

It is of critical concern that our servicemembers have access to the necessary equipment, food, and resupplies.

I want to do everything possible to improve the detection rates and stem the flow of ammonium nitrate from Pakistan coming into Afghanistan.

I have met with many soldiers who have been severely injured or wounded in Afghanistan.

We must get to a position where we have a minimum of 2 years at home with 1 year deployed in the Active component.

If the variant performs successfully during these sea trials next month, would you consider lifting the program from probation?

If confirmed, I will press down even harder on the accelerator.