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The Obama Administration is working with state and local officials to assess damage from Hurricane Irene and the recovery costs.
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The Obama administration is working with state and local officials to assess the damage from hurricane -- -- And the recovery costs.
If federal disaster relief from past hurricanes is any guide any supplemental spending request from the white out we'll include some help for small companies.
Such -- extra lending authority for the.
I do want to underscore that the impacts of this storm will be felt for some time.
And the recovery.
Effort will last for weeks or longer.
So I'm gonna make sure that VHS and FEMA and other federal agencies are doing everything in their power to help folks on the ground.
Meantime the president was working on his new jobs plan.
The US chamber of commerce represents more than three million companies' most of them small businesses which have historically created two thirds of all new jobs the chamber urge the president to be -- -- You -- growth.
In the economy in order to get growth in jobs and much of the proposals of the administration over the last few years have been kind of piecemeal.
We think that you've got to address -- big -- economy like -- with packages that.
Speak to generating economic growth in total and the job growth will -- Among.
Other steps to increase economic growth and job creation the chamber of favors continued -- taxes regulation reform and more infrastructure spending.
That's it for this edition of the small business report I'm Peter Barnes Fox Business Network.
