“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
“Protecting and defending innocent life is and remains important to our Legislature, governor, attorney general and citizens.”

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On the recordMarch 7, 1994
At his nomination hearing on May 6, 1993, SBA Administrator Erskine Bowles responded to my questions about the capability of the SBIC Program to take on the CTIC Program. He pointed to recent legislation reforming the SBIC Program and to SBIC's increasing emphasis on technology development. He also stated that ``SBA could easily modify the existing SBIC Program to establish a dedicated CTIC Program . . . such a program could be operational within 1 year of the enactment of the enabling legislation and program funding.'' Administrator Bowles estimated it would take at least 4 years for another agency to start such a program from scratch. S. 4 was passed out of the Commerce Committee on May 25, 1993, with the CTIC Program under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce. I then filed a floor amendment to remedy the problems in the committee version by moving the CTIC Program from the Department of Commerce to the SBA. The Small Business Committee held a hearing on the promotion of critical civilian technology on June 9, 1993. The testimony of the SBIC Program in fostering the development of high technology.
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Larry Pressler
South Dakota
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the SBIC Program and its potential to support the CTIC Program during a floor speech.

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