mr. shear. her second witness is the honorable mike we are, inspector general of the sba. he was sworn in as inspector general in may 2018 and has been an effective leader in the role and an asset to the committee. he has 28 years of experience in the ig community, rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse. welcome, mr. weir. mr. scheer, you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, chair woman velasquez and members of the committee. i'm pleased to be here this morning to discuss our son espy's paycheck protection program and the economic injury disaster loans program. as he has made a guarantee of 19 million loans and grants through these programs, providing about 970 billion dollars to help small businesses adversely affected by covid-19. in april 2020, the fbi moved quickly to help small businesses survive during the pandemic. the sba and isha lee put -limited controls in place, leaving both programs susceptible to program integrity issues and fraud. since june 2020, we've made eight recommen

mr. sharon. think you so very much, and thank you to argus for your -- your response. >> thank you. the chair will recognize the gentleman from indiana. >> i appreciate the chair and the shearing today. i hope for tomorrow -- more diversity in the technology field and find more opportunities for more people to contribute their talents to this country. i hope it is what continue to make us a leader around the world. i wonder she talked about this for a second, and i know you are a fan of making sure your work force and other work forces are diverse. i also want to recognize the desire you have to ensure that your platform is not bias. you make money by making loans. if you can find more credit worthy individuals, no matter what -- what walk of life, color of their skin or background they may have, then you are better off because of that. wouldn't you say you are incentivized to make sure you would find as many opportunities to make credit worthy loans as possible. >> the ai models get smarter at identifying who will and won't pay a loan. in reality, millions and millions of people who are actually credit worthy are not recognized as such by a credit score. that piece mean the m