House Proceeding on Jul 8th, 2009 :: 1:23:40 to 1:25:35
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Dan Boren: techling ins, products, and services for the american people. with that, i yield two and a half minutes to the gentleman from oklahoma mr. boren. mr. boren: i want to thank the chair for bringing this to the floor. the small business innovation

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Speech By: Dan Boren

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Dan Boren: research program is an effort by congress to increase the portion of federal research and development dollars provided to small businesses. noticing that small businesses were being crowded out of government r&d grants by large corporations, congress established the sbir program this program guarantees small businesses a portion of the

1:24:19 to 1:24:40( Edit History Discussion )

Dan Boren: federal government's large r&d budget. mr. speaker, by any reasonable measure, the sbir program has been a tremendous success. but some members of congress have raised concerns about how the funds are allocated. crics have argued that certain business sectors receive too large a share of the available federal r&d dollars and certain

1:24:41 to 1:25:01( Edit History Discussion )

Dan Boren: demographics have little success obtaining any sbir award money this bill, brought to the floor by the small business committee, makes a strong effort to address these issues. found in the legislation are attempts to reach out to minority-owned businesses, businesses owned by women, and most-important -- and most important, veteran-owned

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Dan Boren: businesses. it is with the same spirit i ask the small business committee to consider my language which directs agencies with an sbir program to make a concerted effort to reach out to native american and tribal-owned businesses. my state of oklahoma is home to 38 federally recognized tribes, 17 of which reside in my district.

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Dan Boren: it is my hope that my language, found in the manager's amendment, will make it easier for native american-owned businesses to obtain these valuable sbir awards. again, i want to thank the chairwoman and ranking member