[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15751]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            SMALL BUSINESSES

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, I was reminded again last night why our 
effort to help small businesses makes sense. I was at the Alliance to 
Save Energy and I gave an award called the Andromeda Award to a company 
called O-Power. It is a small company that has developed a way to help 
Americans save energy, and they have been spectacularly successful. 
They found a way, if you share information about what your neighbors 
are doing, you can reduce your energy costs dramatically.
  This company is growing rapidly and doing well, but these small 
companies need access to capital, and we are proposing plans to make 
sure that they can get access to capital in our efforts to increase 
small business lending. If we do that, these small businesses are going 
to thrive. We've got to get out of the gate to compete with China when 
it comes to clean energy and efficiency. If we pass these bills, we 
will. Let's keep going with small business lending.

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