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Candidate Notes on 01-S174

 


01-S174 on Jan 24, 2001

    Amends provisions of the Small Business Act concerning the Microloan program (a program of start-up loans to small businesses) to:
  1. remove the requirement that such loans be short-term;
  2. allow up to 35 (currently 25) percent of grant funds made to intermediaries to be used to provide technical assistance to small businesses that are prospective borrowers under the program; and
  3. authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to use up to $1 million of the annual appropriations for technical assistance grants to subcontract with one or more national trade associations of eligible intermediaries or other knowledgeable entities to provide peer-to-peer capacity building and training to lenders and organizations seeking to become lenders under the program.



Democrats participating in 01-S174

Max Baucus s1pMT Democrat Sr Senator
Jeff Bingaman s1pNM Democrat Jr Senator
Max Cleland s1pGA Democratic Senator (Former)
Kent Conrad s1pND Democrat Sr Senator
Tom Daschle s1pPOTUS Democrat
Tom Harkin s1pIA Democrat Jr Senator
Daniel Inouye s1pHI Democratic incumbent
Tim Johnson s1pSD Democrat Sr Senator
John Kerry s1iMA Democrat Jr Senator, ran for President 2004
Herbert Kohl s1pWI Democrat Sr Senator
Mary Landrieu s1pLA Democrat Sr Senator
Carl Levin s1pMI Democrat Sr Senator
Joseph Lieberman s1pCT Democratic Jr Senator; Gore's VP nominee; ran for Pres. 2004
Paul Wellstone s1pMN Democrat Senator (Former)



Republicans participating in 01-S174

Kit Bond s1pMO Republican incumbent
Conrad Burns s1pMT Republican Jr Senator
Michael Enzi s1pWY Republican Jr Senator
Olympia Snowe s1pME Republican Sr Senator



Independents participating in 01-S174

Jim Jeffords s1pVT Independent Jr Senator



Total recorded by OnTheIssues:

Democrats: 14
Republicans: 4
Independents: 1