let me begin, ms. mills, with you, what are small businesses telling you about how they view the economy today? >> this is national small business week and we have just finished crossing the country. we started in seattle at microsoft headquarters with hundreds of small businesses. we went to dallas, to st. louis and talked about everything from technology to manufacturing and small business is really on a rising trend across the country, partly because technology is leveling the playing field and we're finding small businesses that can compete with large ones and also because there is unsuring. manufacturing is coming back and small businesses in the supply chain are benefitting. so when we look at the trend today, despite the markets today, the long-term trends for small businesses are accelerating recovery that has really been quite promising in the last year. >> we certainly do see some of that on shoring, the return of manufacturing jobs to the united states, but, ms. mills, when i speak to small busine

can we expect a similar statement from ms. mills as was provided by undersecretary kennedy?> i believe there was one. if there was, i will check on that and get that to you. >> you stated yesterday and today that any notion that any investigation involving allegations of interim misconduct would somehow be overlooked or halted prematurely or otherwise blocked by senior officials in this department, preposterous and inaccurate. but the alghation just that kind of thing occurred and occurred repeatedly was contained not only in the october 2012 memo, but in the december 2012 draft of this o.i.g. final report, which stated that the o.i.g. team heard of instances once or twice a year where senior officials in this department intervened investigations and that sentence was scrubbed from the march 2013 time report to which you referred us. -- final report to which you referred us. this was in fact included in a draft o.i.g. report. your comments? >> it was also included in an internal memo in october, that was, as i referenced had a number of unsubstantiated accusations. i went th