[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 8752-8753]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           THE SMALL BUSINESS INTERMEDIARY LENDING PILOT ACT

  (Ms. KILROY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KILROY. Mr. Speaker, when I talk to people in my community, the 
thing that they are most concerned about are jobs and the economy. When 
we took office, when I was sworn in last January, we were losing jobs 
at an atrocious rate, over 600,000 jobs per month. Now we are seeing 
months of job growth and adding jobs to our economy. That's the good 
news.
  We must continue to stay on this pathway. That's why I have supported 
bills like the HIRE Act to help employers add more people to their 
businesses, and recently filed the Small Business Intermediary Lending 
Pilot Act so that people who are starting businesses and need smaller 
loans, in that gap between $35,000 and $200,000, that there can be a 
pilot program to set that in motion. Because when I talk to people and 
business people in the community, the one thing that they tell me that 
they really need is access to credit and access to capital.
  The Small Business Intermediary Lending Pilot Act will help that. And 
another bill that we are working on in our Financial Services 
Committee,

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putting money into community banks to make loans to business, small 
business, will do just that.

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