i also want to thank sally robertson and ronald paul for being here to explain what this will mean from the point of view of the sba and activities as it effects the business is done by their financial institutions. this is important for us to get your story and i thank you for being here. >> senator levin. >> madam chairman, thank you for your great leadership. as small business is getting clobbered by this government shutdown. each of us have probably dozens of stories. i have about a dozen in my statement which i would ask that you put in the record. i would just use one of those stories, and that's trying to pick out the one here which may be somehow or rather will resonate. a little ferry service that runs up in the northwest part o of te lower peninsula, a little ferry service that runs hunters and hikers and bikers to a little island in the sleeping bear dunes national lakeshore. that service can't run. five runs a week is all it was doing, 50 people on each ferry. 250 people and about $35 each to that's the income of that ferry service. it can't run. it's about a thousand dollar

lender, sally robertson, who pointed out that one of the borrowers that she is working with has posted $149,000 deposit on a new project, that if they can't close in a timely fashion, they're going to lose that deposit. we heard from some small businesses with federal contracts who were on -- they have their contracts on hold so they have had to dip into their cash reserves or furlough workers. and we also heard from a representative from the tourism industry who pointed out that travel and tourism in this country is losing $152 million a day during this government shutdown. well, i know everybody here has heard stories like that from their home states. i'm sure you have heard those kinds of stories from the state of wisconsin. hopefully, we will reopen the government, we will pass this agreement today, we will be able to get those small businesses up and running again, we will be able to provide some certainty for those federal contracts, we will be able to bring back to work those furloughed workers and make sure that they get back pay, but the challenge is that we can't let this hap

i want to thank sally robertson and ron paul being here to explain what this will mean from the point of view from the s.b.a. in activities as it affects the businesses done by their financial institutions. this is important for you to get your story and it's important that -- i thank you for being here. >> senator levin. >> thank you for your great leadership here. small business is getting clobbered by this government shutdown. each of us have probably dozens of stories. i have about a dozen in my stament which i would ask that you put in the record. i just use one of those stories and that's about trying to pick out the one here which maybe somehow or another will resonate. little fairy service that runs up in the northwest part of the lower peninsula. a ferry that runs hunters and hikers and bikers to a little island in the sleeping bear dones lake shore. that ferry can't run. five runs a week was all it was doing, 50 people on each ferry. about 250 people at about $35 each. that's the income of that ferry service. it can't run. it's about $8,000 in lost fares per week. small busi