Excerpt from Small Business Administration's Budget Request: Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session Mr. Bowles has had a whirlwind 1% weeks on the job, my having crossed paths with him a few times, quite a few times, last week during the Small Business Week activities. N ow he is here to ex plain and to defend his agency's budget request as well as discuss any overall goals he has developed for the sba. Frankly, I think he deserves our admiration for the way he has hit the ground running in his new position, and I really look forward to working with him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.