mr. schrader, and i, together with representative rooney, sent a letter to the super committee. i'd like to read it to the american people. we write to you as a bipartisan group of representatives from across the political spectrum in the belief that the success of your committee is vital to our country's future. we know many, many in washington and around the country don't believe we in congress and in your committee can successfully meet this challenge. we can and we must. to exceed all options for mandatory spending and others must be on the table. we know from other bipartisan frameworks that targeted some $4 trillion -- that a total of $4 there will in deficit reduction is necessary to ensure america's fiscal well being. our country needs our honest, bipartisan judgment and our political courage. your committee has been given a unique opportunity and authority to act. we are prepared to support you in this effort. my colleague and i have backed and encourage the supercommittee to go big. to look at $4 trillion of deficit reduction, 9.1%. with eknow we can do that. it does w

mr. schrader. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm pleased it that some people in the majority party are beginning to rethink having, require to pay for fema reimbursements up front when there's a disaster, real people are hurting. and soon mr. barletta was obviously one of those who was not want to hold up the fema bill, so i appreciate his help. >> would you yield? >> no, i have a limited amount of time. i want to talk about, i think the successes that the small business administrator has had over the last few years. when i came here, actually tranfourteen at the same time and i was a little bit aghast at the status of the small business administration had been hacked at, cut back dramatically by the previous administration, not just the one before but over the years. it was in total disarray. we had a lot of testimony about waste, fraud, and abuse that we've had several subsequent sessions with the administrator and it looks like things have gotten frankly a lot better. there's a new sheriff in town and i appreciate that, madam

mr. schrader was mentioning that one of the rules to get the treasury loan is that the company has to certifythat they are not child sex offenders and it was a parliamentary trick played last year to defeat this bill and actually got included so they are having trouble lending the money because of this provision because of the small business loans are a little bit insulted that they have to certify. .. >> she is the representative, and instead of asking questions, i want to report back briefly to you what we heard because it was very educational for me. this was an area that is literally driven by small business, that takes up an enormous size of the economy in that part of southern california. there's very few large national fortune 500 company, but a very, very active small business community, entrepreneurs, in large part from the immigrant community, and here's what we heard. we had small business lenders there, small banks, and one of the things they told us was they were doing lots of lending to small business, but no small business lending. twhai were not using any of the programs avail