We should encourage investments in small businesses, not limit it.

I think the SBIC program fills a critical gap in the market caused by the financial crisis.

Does the Administration still support raising the family of funds limit? And will you work with me to help pass an increase?

Hamas required billions of dollars and considerable access to weapons and technology to carry on the nearly 2-month-long war against Israel.

I encourage all members to support this good bipartisan measure.

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 3398 offered by the Honorable Steve Chabot.

I commend him for that, working on it in a bipartisan manner.

China has to recognize that an unstable region is not in China's interest and really creates some problems.

I think they are well said.

This is a critical time in Israel's history. And it is imperative that we continue to stand beside our friend and ally.

I especially want to express my strong support for Israel's right to defend its territory from attacks by Hamas terrorists.

I wasn't a big fan of the Morsi government and as a Member of Congress and as a former chair of this committee in the last Congress I was, quite frankly, pleased to see Morsi, who I thought was a real danger to the country, removed.

As chair of this committee and as a Member of Congress, I would consider myself to be very pro-India, but their attitude on this matter with respect to Russia is very disappointing to say the least.

I am committed to that for sure.

This is an issue that we agree on, and that is what we ought to give local communities more flexibility.

the way they deal with this is going to be one of the things that I am going to consider very much on whether--how much my support will be.

I want to thank you and the committee for holding this very important hearing, and I want to especially thank one of the county commissioners from Hamilton County, Todd Portune.

This is bipartisan legislation introduced by another Democratic Member of Congress, Marcia Fudge from Cleveland.

H.R. 2707, the Clean Water Compliance and Ratepayer Affordability Act of 2013, introduced by Congressman Chabot.

I think there was a kind of a scramble for the door there from the very start.

It was always the plan, it was always assumed that we were going to have a military, a U.S. military presence there following the war.

I would just urge the administration to work with any resources we have available to us to push back on that with every fiber that we have as a nation.

I would like to thank Chairman Graves for holding this installment of the series of hearings on oversight of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs.

There is, quite frankly, a great deal of skepticism in how this administration is overseeing the unraveling of Iraq.

One particular disease that hits close to home is diabetes, which now impacts 885,000 Ohioans and costs $9.3 billion annually.