85 percent of our country's persistent poverty counties are in rural America. Poverty is not just an urban issue.
I think it is interesting when you look around this podium here to see that there is not a state that is not impacted by disaster.
One of the criticisms that I frequently hear, especially of the SBA programs, is the criticism that you have--it seems like there is one han...
if we are going to see communities recover, we need to make sure that there is a possibility of recovery in a way that is maybe more humane ...
My great concern is that we will end up, even in states like North Dakota, being a place where people will only find opportunity in cities o...
But we certainly appreciate the work that both of you do, and I am grateful, as is my State, for all of the assistance FEMA has given us as ...
We were pretty insistent that a provision needed to be placed that would prohibit SBA from collateralizing someone's home because then liter...
I think one of the great challenges here in terms of disaster relief is that the balance between wanting it to be self-contained and have no...
With SBA funding for small business, how would--given that this law is in effect, how would you then implement this provision without a regu...
I will tell you, in visiting, people feel like these programs are disjointed, that all of a sudden, they will hear something from SBA that t...
For me, a lot of this lies in maximizing the availability of federal resources, maximizing the knowledge of federal resources and where we c...