White House Chiefs of Staff

And that would be to simply send us a budget that balances. In his lifetime would be great; in his children's lifetime would be okay; but send us a budget, Mr. President, that balances at some time. You are at the White House right now…

One of the things Ms. Chu and I in her district, on our subcommittee, one of the things we heard when we were out in California was the lack of information about SBA programs.

I have actually participated in the disaster assistance relief program. I showed up at work about 6 months after I had started my own business one morning to find my office furniture floating in the front yard.

But that the work that was done out there that was the subject of today's hearing for 3rd Army was not done under the rules regarding project labor agreements.

I guess it is fair to say that if there was another project over $25 million that began today at Shaw Air Force Base, it would be subject to the review that you have just laid out, and it might fall under the project labor agreement.

Thank you. And my understanding is that project labor agreements have been generally perceived as being favorable to union labor over at-will labor.

I'm Mick Mulvaney, 5th District representative from South Carolina, and the chairman of the Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce.

Less than 1 percent of the small businesses nationwide export at all, and 95 percent of the ones that do export to only one country.

This is a bipartisan effort. We are not here with Republican and Democrat.

I give the President tremendous credit for specifically mentioning those things in his jobs bill.

We just had a series of meetings in my district led by the U.S. Chamber specifically encouraging people to export into the Middle East.

There is a tremendous untapped market for us in small business.

Exports is something else that everybody here has mentioned off and on.

While the path to success is not always easy, it remains achievable to all who are willing to put in the hard work to build a business.

One of the founding principles that allows our country to be successful is the spirit of entrepreneurship.

As a member of Congress from a very, very rural, small area in South Carolina who has only, I think, been to California twice in my life for a combined 15 hours, this has been a really neat experience to be here in this wonderful town that…

We will adjourn now until 11 o'clock, although I will tell you Ms. Chu and I will come back as quickly as we can to try and move through.

It was nice to welcome the two new members of Congress.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina will be postponed. Amendment No. 71 Offered by Ms. Bass of California

Just for clarification, the amendment only makes the change to the base spending. It does not change anything in title 9. It does not change overseas contingencies in any way. It is simply the base portion of the DOD budget. Thank you for…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. The total amount of appropriations made…

Political activity is not a selection factor.

I hope to work with each of our witnesses today in this endeavor.

By increasing the number of students seeking higher education, we can begin the process of decreasing our unacceptable 10% unemployment rate.