in a world where revolutionary new products are conceived and companies are launched in garages, new ways of meeting businesses capital needs are needed. through the small business early stage investment program, this bill recognizes this fundamental shift and takes steps to make the capital -- meet the capital needs of our new businesses. our nation's entrepreneurs have led us out of every previous recession and they can do so again. but only if we give them the right tools. this legislation will make loans more affordable for assisting businesses so they can grow and add to their payrolls. and for the enterprises just getting off the ground, it will mean investments in cutting edge status. a vote for this bill is a vote in favor of the american traditions of innovation and entrepreneurship. i urge my colleagues to vote with the small businesses in their district, vote yes. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back her time. the gentleman from texas. mr. neugebauer: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the

and we went up to this little plant where they were taking in garbage and we were separating the garage, the plastic and stuff, pulling out the paper, and they would take that paper -- anybody ever churn butter? ok, they were putting it in like a big turn, had a pole about that big around, and they were turning, putting water in that, churning that paper up and pulverizing it in that wheelbarrow, and they would take it over, and they'd stir it up in that wheelbarrow, and they would fix three hydraulic jacks that they could take and pour that in there, and the cylinder is about this big around, and they would compress that paper and those cylinders and then punt it out, cut it about this big, about that big around. and they were making brick thes out of paper. for people to cook the food on in their cooking pots, to try to keeppthem from cutting trees down and making charcoal. and i saw all this plastic, and i said, you know, mr. president, we could probably get northwest arkansas, joe brooks and them, put a sleder and a baylor and bail this stuff up and recycle this plastic for them and

one of the ideas that is being floated is for harrisburg to sell its parking garages.hose could be sold to a private entity. now, one objection that you often hear, though, to cities dealing with their debt problems by selling assets is this. cities get revenues from those assets. so once a city sells the assets, what happens to the revenue? and of course for each city and each assets, that's a caste by caste determination. but those are two choices. right? or actually they're three. renegotiate with everybody outside of bankruptcy. the problem is often people don't -- you can't get everybody to the table outside of bankruptcy. then you can renegotiate in bankruptcy. and a bankruptcy filing is one way to get everybody to the table. so if you have recalstant creditors, creditors who don't want to make the deal outside of bankruptcy. and in chapter 9 you've got to try to make that deal. if you have people who don't want, creditors who don't want to make that deal you file for chapter 9 to get them to the table to negotiate. option 3, look at what assets you have that you

you think about whht goes into building a new home, steel, wood, carpeting and drapes, third car garage, the appliances, there is a lot of economic output, especially with those household products like washers and dryers and the like. so we are beginning to see upturn in the economy because of that. look, we lost a lot oo jobs, millions of jobs under previous economic take us a economic policies and will take us a while to grow back the economy and get back to the confidence that we all share that we are in a stronggr positiin, but we're on the right track. we're on the right track. and according to folks who study the economy daily like "fortune" magazine, said the economy has made a sharp u-turn and better days for american businesses and workers are around the cornnr. "newsweek" said america is coming back stronger, better and faster than nearly anyone had expected, in fact, better than our international rivals. recovery came quickly because the public and private sectors reacted with great speed. from the far left to the far right, economists are saying we had to do something, we ha

going to give the federal government power to tell you you've got to put a 220 volt plug in your garage for your electric car and can't build a wing on your house without making sure the carbon footprint is right and we're going to tax anybody every time you flip a light switch and we're going to try to pass this piece of trash bill and the excuse for this is the fact that we haven't dealt with the problem in the ocean. i just -- i don't understand how people can have such great, great faith in the federal government. it just blows my mind. of course, you know, gentlemen, the health care bill, every day that comes out we find out more and more problems. all things we were saying were going to happen, and it just -- it shows that the real objective here isn't health care at all. that's the ironic thing. this is not about -- this obama benchmark progress report, you know, here's the thing about jobs, is it going to help with jobs? no. it fail this is measurement, costs, today i want to lay out thh details of a plan that guarantees coverage for every american and brings down health care co