"You would think that a report from a nonpartisan watchdog claiming hundreds of billions of dollars were disbursed to criminals through the SBA would warrant her showing up to this Committee today, but..."
"The American people need accountability and transparency, and if a small business accounts receivable were as high as the SBA's, they would take all action possible to get this money back."
"So we must get an accurate picture of what money was obtained illegally so we can bring the criminals who took advantage of taxpayers to justice and get money back to the Treasury Department."
"To the taxpayers, $100,000 is still a lot of money. So just to ignore it is another problem."
"Yields back."
"I would just argue that it might not be wise to reduce funding to the IRS when we need to go after both fraudsters and tax cheats."
"We should also all agree to resource it to the level that the administration has asked."
"I am so glad we did because if you look at our economy right now, the highest GDP ever, the best-- the lowest inflation now in the entire G7 universe, the lowest unemployment in my lifetime."
"Thank you for holding this hearing. Thank you for making the notifications on time within the rules."
"They are concerned about the SEC's push to implement costly environmental, social, and political regulatory requirements."
"It is critical that we understand that slashing agency budgets prevents public servants from doing their jobs and serving our constituents."
"I don't like well-run Texas banks--I want to go on record with this--bailing out badly-run California banks."