Iowa. Who we look to replace that man has to have the trust and confidence of the American People, and it has to be on matters spoken in public and in private. Private promises and public statements for the American People being the same, and it has to be for all our people. For our complete weekend schedule go to cspan. Org. Next the head of the Small Business administration, maria cron trer contrerassweet is questioned about problems at the sba. The government recently found management problems and recommended changes. The Small Business administration is chaired by steven shav its in ohio. I call this meeting to order, and i want to welcome back Maria Contrerassweet. I think everyone here wants the same thing, and thats to serve americas Small Businesses the best we can. Those of us up here on the dias have a stand. Our constituents let us know how theyre doing all the time and on an ongoing basis. As a head of an agency, i often worry too often you hear from your own folks and othe
Whether an element of social transformation is built into the interventions that will address the governance issues. You, thank you for your attention and im looking forward to comments and questions. Thank you, dr. Lee. Before i ask my first question as the moderator, i just want to encourage the panelists if they have comments on each others remarks, i would welcome any ne followup on those. I encourage a discussion here also between the panelists and also as the same way we engage with the audience. Esting one thing you said which i think was very interesting is that two things actually. One was demonstrating the cost of violence as potentially productive and that theres note this link between poverty and lr support for extremism. Something that we see very clearly in several years of tann survey Research Across pakistan in all parts of the country, so not an arab country but a it country that suffers tremendous amounts of Political Violence that generally it is the poor who are mos
Everyone here wants the same thing and that is to serve americas businesses the best we can. Those of us out here on the dais at the lincoln advantage of issue and let us know how we are doing all the time and on an ongoing basis as head of an agency i sometimes worry that too often you most fear from your own folks and from other washington bureaucrats fear that is the only explanation for why the six to nine gao identified concerns and problems havent been addressed. Yesterday wasnt the first time these issues have been raised. Yesterday we heard some pretty serious concerns both by members of this committee and from our gao witness who testified here yesterday about the management of the sba. Administrator maria contrerassweet, since you are with us yesterday will recap is briefly although im sure your staff is already given you a rundown. I told the gao witness yesterday that this kind of reminds me of being a parent. If your teenagers room is the mass and then stuff from all over
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