These are full-time positions.

We find, one, again, the overwhelming majority of the time it does not need to get to the actual issuance of a Form 70.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

For the 8(a) Business Development's Mentor-Protege Program we did see some issues with the way that the joint ventures between those mentors and proteges were happening.

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 small businesses overall were 22.7 percent as you said. Woman-owned small businesses were just over four percent. Small disadvantaged businesses were just under eight percent.

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

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

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

The President worked with House and Senate Democrats to pass the stimulus as quickly as possible, promising that the unemployment rate would not go above 8 percent once the bill was passed.

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.

The administration assailed critics by claiming there was a consensus amongst economists that a massive spending bill was in the country's best interest.

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

The unemployment rate has climbed above 8 percent, as we all know.

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

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.

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

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

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?