We've done a lot to expedite our response in these areas, and over the last six months we have approved more disaster loan dollars in a shorter time frame than in any other disaster response in the agency's history.

The Indians had to wait up to six months for a response. It took me six months to get the message that I really wanted to be with Aidan. And now, I couldn't wait another minute. Are all the improvements in communication really helping us communicate? In m

After 9/11, the SBA was doing all it could to help small businesses, not only in the areas directly affected by the terrorist attacks, but across the country as well. We are confident the SBA implemented the program in the way Congress intended and did so in an open and aboveboard manner.

After 9/11, the SBA was doing all it could to help small businesses, not only in the areas directly affected by the terrorist attacks, but across the country as well. We are confident the SBA implemented the program in the way Congress intended and did so in an open and above-board manner.

All of this is an improvement over our old system.

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.