Lujan, republican Mark Ronchetti , and libertarian bob walsh. Moderating tonight, kobs anchors and editor in chief of the Santa Fe New Mexican. Good evening. For those of you watching on kob kob. Com, or if youre listening from our network of Radio Partners across new mexico, welcome. Chief of the Santa Fe New Mexican to the moderating team. We are delighted to have candidates who will appear on your ballot running for the open u. S. Senate seat. There will be joining us tonight. Tonight, the candidates are appearing from three locations. Mark ronchetti is with us inside our studio. Ben ray lujan is in his Campaign Office in albuquerque. Bob walsh is at his home in santa fe. Because of covid19 risks, we give candidates the option to appear from wherever they feel safest. There is a crew from kob with each remote candidate to provide timekeeping and enforce rules and provide Live Technology to broadcast. The timekeeper has been provided onchetti in our studios. Candidates will have one
202140 upon competition. Tips and more information on how to get started at a website, student cam. Org. The house Small Business subcommittee held a hearing on the Paycheck Protection Program also known as ppe. Small Business Owners testified about their experiences applying for ppe loan forgiveness. An excellent how this process could be confusing. We are meeting today to conduct an important hearing onl the Small Business administration Paycheck Protection Program or ppe. Specifically, a review of the loan forgiveness process. I want to thank each of the witnesses for their testimonies today. In the pastovas several months s committee has held numerous hearings on ppe. We have heard from borrowers and lenders about the challenges they face. Ive also traveled across counties in new jersey to speak with Business Owners about how e they fared during this pandem. And for some of them discuss the challenges they face with the ppe. In uncertainty about the futureo holds. Borrowers to even
Revenues for 2020 are 7. 7 higher than 2019 instead of using a heavy handed government putting long term restrictions on people, we decided to trust the people that they would be safe and secure and opened our economy if other states would like to see that type of economic recovery, maybe they should address the way they their states are being governed. I know the Federal Reserve is looking in ways of broadening the main Street Lending program, which i think we all realize need to be broadened theres some yaareas id like t see us take a look at and one of those industries that is interested in main Street Lending is specialized Consumer Finance firms which are nonbanks that purchase credit card receivables from card securing banks which enables consumers with sub prime credit to access a credit card which is some of the most vulnerable in our society right now. The ebitda rieequirements preve them from obtaining a loan would you consider modifying to allow the firms to access this prog
We are meeting today to conduct an important hearing on the Small Business administration Paycheck Protection Program, or ppp, specifically, review review of the loan forgiveness process. I want to thank each of the witnesses for their testimonies today. Over the past several months, this committee has held numerous hearings on the ppp, and weve heard from borrowers and lenders about the challenges theyve faced in accessing the program. Ive also traveled across my district of burlington and ocean counties in new jersey to speak with Business Owners about how theyve fared during the pandemic, and ive heard some of the successes and challenges theyve faced with ppp and uncertainty about what the future holds. From borrowers who eventually did access a loan, the Committee Heard concerns about complicated, unclear, and sometimes conflicting Program Rules and other requirements associated with loan forgiveness. Lenders also expressed a great deal of frustration over the needlessly complicat
First, i would ask all members on the webex platform to keep themselves muted when theyre not being recognized. This will minimize disturbances while members are asking questions of our witnesses. Members on the webex platform are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves. The staff have been instructed not to mute members except where a member is not being recognized and there is inadvertent background noise. Members on the platform are reminded they may only attend one remote hearing at a time. So if you are participating today please remain with us during the hearing. Members should try to avoid coming in and out of the meeting particularly during the question period. If during the hearing members wish to be recognized the chair recommends that members identify themselves by name so as to facilitate the chairs recognition. I would also ask that members be patient as the chair proceeds given the nature of the Online Platform the committee is using. In addition the chair informs