On the recordMay 28, 2010
Let me thank the gentlelady and acknowledge that I am from Texas. And in addition to the good news, and we are still working to improve the conditions of Texans, this bill will be a cause celebre in the State of Texas. We know, overall, 290,000 jobs have been created in the month of April over the United States because this Democratic leadership had the courage to vote for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the stimulus package that has generated the opportunities for job creation. The point is that this bill saves taxpayer dollars, and it helps one of the basic infrastructures of job creation, small businesses. And through the program that we are now extending--we are eliminating fees for loan packages--we will see increased opportunities for our small businesses to get what they need, the capital to hire people and to keep their businesses and their doors open. $26 billion in loans has already gone out to our small businesses across America, impacting the numbers, Madam Chair, that you read in the Houston Business Journal, where the small businesses are one of the basic infrastructures of our community.
