Before the Comp Demo program, small businesses in those selective industries were making 78 percent of all the contracts. Right now they are doing only 38 percent, almost cut in half. And, besides, I thought that the gentleman represented the party where people are rewarding small businesses or businesses that are exceeding. So now if they are doing a little bit better, then we are going to punish them?
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