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

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…

So what you are basically saying is that the information that the agency has, which Members of Congress may not have, is that PRIME, while it serves a purpose is a duplication in many cases and that is the reason why year after year people…

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.

But that is the one that always keeps getting cut. So there must be something more than a budget issue every year.

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.

Well, it would help us as a Committee, and I know that the Chairman would agree with this, that when we begin to dissect what this budget will look like, and this bill will look like, we need to know the success stories, and again this is…

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…

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…

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