astounded me. i wrote a letter to usda, saying that it was the worst thing i'd ever seen in pennsylvania and that if they could award funding, that they do so. and they did. they did. over $15 million, grant and loan, for that project. mcmillen: and it took years to get funding. what kept this project going was the steadfastness of the community -- they knew they needed sewage, and they just kept plugging along till we got through every issue that came up. the project will consist of 44 miles of line that we're going to put in, and a treatment plant. it will permanently eliminate the problem, the health hazards. i anticipate a definite regrowth in herminie, and it will be a good thing for everybody. zdravecky: maybe it won't help me too much because i'm an old lady, but whoever comes along after me will get the benefit. schwartz: there's nothing isolated about the herminie situation. it's a very common problem. it's a town that was built before current standards. this is not backwoods rural america

it is astounding to me that in washington, d.c. these incredible debates go on about unemployment compensation come about jobs, being debated by people who have jobs. of being debated by people who have jobs and cannot figure how to get americans back to work. if this is an outrage. all that debate and discussion, if you do not have a job, people are not interested in the kind of conversation and dialogue. we are showing supporting this legislation. we will do all we can to make sure if this legislation passes of them. thank you. we know that you care about america. thank you. >> thank you very much. franni thank you for your leadership and remind us about the role of local government. we have been working to try to do several things. we can not giving it the youth summer jobs program pass. -- we can not even give it the youth summer jobs program passed. something is definitely wrong. thank you for your leadership. jankowski from illinois. she is our voice, calling for fiscal responsibility entry form. we cannot get there unless we

i'm astounding at how many respected firms that have been in business for many, many years have always paid theirills and been outstanding businesses tell me they can't find or get access to capital to hire and move forward. and it's a huge challenge. i'm hearing it in the democratic caucus. believe it's a problem across the country. could you tell us what the administration is doing to ease that? could you commentfurther on the small business loan guarantee program and any other initiat e initiatives or actions that we could take to help small businesses have greater liquidity so they could move into the future with more confidence? >> so, i hear exactly the same things that you are hearing. again, chairman bernanke gave a speech this week talking about what they were seeing in their data. yes, small businesses are having trouble getting credit and that is something that is impeding their growth in job creation. it's absolutely one of the head winds that we face and should be dealing with. you know, when we did a very compa comprehensive review of this, what we thought was the best way forward was the small business len lending fund that

me that i want to share. but i heard the last five minutes or so of our colleagues and i was really astounded at some of the words that they used like, the pro-growth agenda and how our tax-cutting policy was not paid for and how they did everything under pay-go except very, very rare emergencies where they had to go outside of pay-go and that we're so irresponsible that we will just not vote for the pay-go bill. i find it really like the book "1984." and i would say to people, if you haven't read the book "1984" or haven't read it in a long time, take some time to read it, because what you're seeing here from our colleagues on the other side of the aisle is "1984" being played out in the year 2010. i do want to bring some facts to it and i'm glad, mr. speaker, congressman gohmert is explaining the fact that under the clinton years, which we hear so much about, and which i, on the rules committee am often having to correct various chairmen, like the budget committee chairman who bragged about the clinton years. and i said who was in charge of the congress the last six years of president clinton's administration.

i'm astounding at how many respected firms that have been in business for many, many years have always paid their bls and been outstanding businesses tell mehey can't find or get access to capital to hire and move forward. and it's a huge challenge. i'm hearing it in the democratic caucus. i believe it's a problem across the country. could you tell us what the administration is doing to ease that? could you comment further on the small business loan guarantee program and any other initiat e initiatives or actions that we could take to help small businesses have greater liquidity so ty could move into the future with more confidence? >> so, i hear exactly the same things that you are hearing. again, chairman bernanke gave a speech this week talking about what they were seeing in their data. yes, small businesses are having trouble getting credit and that is something that is impeding their growth in job creation. it's absolutely one of the head winds that we face and should be dealing with. you know, when we did a very compa comprehensive view of this, what we thought was the best way forward was the small business len lending fund that is

i'm astounding at how many respected firms that have been in business for many, many years have always paid their bills and been outstanding businesses tell me they can't find or get access to capital to hire and move forward. and it's a huge challenge. i'm hearing it in the democratic caucus. i believe it's a problem across the country. could you tell us what the administration is doing to ease that? could you comment further on the small business loan guarantee program and any other initiat e initiatives or actions that we could take to help small businesses have greater liquidity so they could move into the future with more confidence? >> so, i hear exactly the same things that you are hearing. again, chairman bernanke gave a speech this week talking about what they were seeing in their data. yes, small businesses are having trouble getting credit and that is something that is impeding their growth in job creation. it's absolutely one of the head winds that we face and should be dealing with. you know, when we did a very compa comprehensive review of this, what we thought was the best way forward was the small business len lending fund th