Harry Reid: “Senators Kerry and Snowe, who are the chairman and ranking member of the Committee on Small Business, have indicated…”

“Senators Kerry and Snowe, who are the chairman and ranking member of the Committee on Small Business, have indicated there are a lot of matters relating to small business jurisdiction that need to be completed forthwith. They are going to work on this next week and hope to have something done very quickly, but this gives them an opportunity to deal with the House, which, I am told, basically did not confer with them at all during the work they did over there, and they should have done that. I say again, Senators Kerry and Snowe understand the importance of this issue. They also know there are many other things depending on their raising this as an issue at this time.”