José E. Serrano

How do we get to protect those who do not get a chance to be seen properly?

As an elected official, I know I will never get a positive story.

One of the things you are going to continue to hear and we continue to hear here from a group of folks, in the majority party especially, is about cuts, cuts, cuts, cuts in the budget in general.

IT presents a unique challenge. We could give you a bundle of money now, and in a year and a half from now, half of that equipment you bought is obsolete.

If you are lucky enough to get an air wave to transmit, I think you have a responsibility to be fair to all the people that you are reaching, or ignoring, or whatever.

I commend OMB for your role in these efforts.

It should be noted that the President's fiscal year 2015 budget prepared with your counsel stands in stark contrast to Representative Ryan's Republican budget.

I have been around here long enough to remember, for instance, Y2K, and how we felt the world was going to come to an end at midnight.

I seem to get the sense that you both agree that changes need to take place but you do not agree on how the changes or what changes need to take place.

Why does it always have to be so negative?

I also would like to join you in welcoming the Acting Director of National Drug Control Policy, Michael Botticelli.

You are not one of the agencies that gets mentioned every day on the Floor of the House. But yet when something hits hard you are the first one we go to for help and so do the American people.

you see, that is a program that seems to be working, so we are wondering why the administration would want to cut or propose a cut?

I have always had a special interest in issues affecting Puerto Rico.

I would make a request which is a mantra with me as you know. That is if at some time, not necessarily for our budget but for our understanding, they could give us a report on how the Small Business Administration is dealing with the…

Unfortunately the next Sandy we can't predict it. But everything indicates, that there will be the next Sandy somewhere.

So you have both security concerns being discussed now? You are working with folks down there to see if you could come up with a better idea of securing the existing facility, and GSA is leading a study to see if there is a need for a new…

You wonder what shape are we in to meet those disasters in the future.

any time drugs enters one of our territories, it has, in fact, entered into the United States.

What are you specifically proposing to do to reduce the misuse of the prescription drugs?

it gets restored every year, every year it is almost like a done deal. You propose to get rid of it, you and your predecessors, and then we restore it.

For Women owned and minority owned businesses, the Small Business Act sets a government wide goal of 23 percent of Federal procurement contracts going to small businesses with specific goals for different categories of small businesses.

I am concerned that you are again proposing to cut funding to the PRIME program.

there is always something that happens and it is happening again, and that is the disconnect between the support that the PRIME technical assistance program has from Members of Congress and the continued desire by the Administration to get…

Small businesses are invaluable engines of economic growth, job creation, and innovation, and I am pleased to be able to discuss these important issues today.