Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you both for being here. Mr. Briggs, Mr. Mulligan, appreciate your willingness to enter service. I'll start with you, Mr. Briggs, that Congress created the SBA in the law so that it could promote access to capital for small businesses. When I was governor, in a different lifetime, we did what we call the bottom up economic development plan. (00:17–00:23)
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