Jim Jordan

These are full-time positions.

The federal government spends about $500 billion every year through federal contracts, and it is with SBA's support and assistance small businesses receive nearly $100 billion of that spend.

The difference between quantifiably tracking these things which we are really trying to push on and setting goals in advance as Mr. Shear said is where some of the challenges

So when Congress passed the Small Business Jobs Act, which asked SBA to expand our 8(a) Mentor-Protege Program to include HUBZone-eligible firms, women-owned small businesses and service-disabled vets, we wanted to figure out that very…

In fiscal year 2010, small businesses won 22.7 percent of federal contracting dollars. This marks the second consecutive year of increase and the largest two-year increase in over a decade.

What we overwhelmingly heard is that it is a great opportunity to learn from somebody who has done this how to do it.

Yes, absolutely. So the exact split is something that we would be working through based on the implementation of the analysis we discussed but it would be to handle those oversight and fraud, waste, and abuse prevention functions.

Sure. Yes, as Mr. Shear says, we agreed with most, if not all of the recommendations in the GAO report.

We are always looking for ways to increase small business contracting opportunities, and I am proud to say that in the two and a half years I have been in my position, we have made significant and quantifiable improvements.

Our top priority at SBA is to maximize opportunities for small businesses and ensure that the benefits of our programs flow to the intended recipients.

One of the thing we thought this debt ceiling debate made sense was a proposal we put forward we thought was starting to break through with the American.

If these tax loopholes were so bad, so terrible, so needed, why didn't the previous Congress just 10 months ago take care of them then?

They didn't steal that money, they worked hard for that money.

We need to get government out of the way.

We don't pay our bills by going deeper into debt. That is avoiding paying our bills and guaranteeing eventual default.

I would argue Standard & Poor's downgraded us because the lack of the deal, the agreement addressing how serious this situation is.

Think about what the deal was, a $14 trillion debt; we raise it $2.4 trillion; we got $21 billion in savings the first year.

Nevertheless, it is the first time in 70 years the U.S. bond rating was downgraded.

Even though Congress said taxes were going to remain the same, no, the President is sending a completely different message.

The one word I have heard more than anything else over the last 3 years relative to our economic situation and the lack of growth is uncertainty.

I hate being an employer because of all the stuff you make us do, and he pointed right at me, talking about government.

Instead of rushing to pass additional spending, we need to ensure that any new legislation is carefully crafted and actually facilitates job creation.

If big government spending was going to get us out of this mess, for goodness sakes, we should have been out of it a long time ago.

We need an honest discussion about our economy and not just rhetoric.

No matter how you look at the stimulus, it has simply failed to live up to the administration's promises.