the senate small business and entrepreneurship committee held an oversight hearing wednesday on relief programs related to covid-19. representatives from the sba and government accountability office testified. this is two hours and 15 minutes. sen. cardin: the small business and entrepreneurship committee will come to order. i want to acknowledge that our four nieces today will be virtual, and they are all connected through webex, so we have them available. we have also been informed that several members of our committee will also participate through webex and not in person. i want to thank senator paul for his help in accommodating this hearing. this is an extremely important hearing. our first with administration witnesses in regards to our responsibility to oversight the small business tools that have been made available as a result of the covid-19 pandemic. today s hearing will give us an opportunity to look back on sba s implementation of its covid-19 relief programs in
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process and wait times for receiving loans. from the house small business committee, this is about two hours. i want to thank everybody for joining us. i want to know important requirements. let me begin by standing in that test by stating that house rules will continue to apply during the proceedings. all members are reminded that they are expected to adhere to these standing rules, including decorum. with that said, the technology we are utilizing today requires us to make some small thefications to ensure that members can fully participate in these proceedings. asing the covid period, designated by the speaker, the committee will operate in accordance with house resolution guidancer subsequence from the rules committee in a manner that respects the rights of all members to bridges bait. to participate. regulations require members to be visible through a video connection throughout the proceedings, so keep your cameras on. also, if you have to participate in another pro
eastern europe. about 2,000 troops are going to poland and another 700 are going to rumania as well as other countries in the southeastern flank of nato. the reason for this is because of the anxiety these allies are feeling in the midst of this massive russian troop buildup in ukraine. the president did hint at this last week. he said he would be moving those troops to eastern europe in the near term, but he did not say when that would be happening. we are told these deployments could be coming in the coming days. what we re told is this is coming at a time when these allies are feeling very, very anxious about this russian aggression there, and this is a show of support for those allies. this is not a precursor to any kind of u.s. troops on the ground in ukraine. this is just those troops going to eastern europe to shore up that flank and reassure them that the u.s. is there in the event that russia does invade ukraine and tries to move even further west, jim. ambassador,
policy. it was emerrill rogers not that long ago said just as much as that, that we don t have a good cyber offensive policy. we talked about it ad infinitum in classified settings for the entire ten years i was on the intelligence community and we could never get consensus to move to the next place on what that cyber offensive is. and by the way just as a personal note i just saw that the administration says they re going to make china pay for the consequence of the opm hack. i can t wait. i cannot wait to see what the heck that thing is. and candidly i m not too excited about what it s going to be. we haven t crossed that threshold to bring everybody in a room and try to work through this problem. i would long answer to your question, but i don t believe they have the right to go extraterritorial to protect what they perceive to be a threat at that point. that s fantastic. thank you, thank you so much. we can get a hand for the speakers. that s just great. you can see h