S.Amdt. 905

SA 905. Ms. SNOWE (for herself and Mr. Cardin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 13, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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(4) improve the HUBZone program established under section 31 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657a) in a manner consistent with the recommendations of the Government Accountability Office in the reports entitled “Small Business Administration: Additional Actions Are Needed to Certify and Monitor HUBZone Businesses and Assess Program Results” (GAO-08-643), issued June 2008, “HUBZone Program: SBA's Control Weaknesses Exposed the Government to Fraud and Abuse” (GAO-08-964T), issued July 17, 2008, and “HUBZone Program: Fraud and Abuse Identified in Four Metropolitan Areas” (GAO-09-519T), issued March 25, 2009;