David Roe: “I say to the chairman, we appreciate the spirit in which he and Chairman Kline have approached this problem.”

I would like to encourage the SBA to allow lenders the discretion to offer loans to companies in Chapter 11.

I want to give the VA a shout-out and there are some--obviously, we are going over some problems today that the VA had, but all in all I think the VA probably has the opportunity to be one of the best systems in the country.

If you were, you wouldn't behave like this. And nobody would spend their own money like this.

But I am mindful of something Rahm Emanuel said when he was chief of staff to President Obama in 2009. He said you never let a serious crisis go to waste. I am afraid some of us are doing that here.