Small Business Administration loans to veterans: hearings before the Subcommittee on Special Investigations of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, June 18 and September 10, 1980 |
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15 percent Acting Chairman HILLIS activities agency's American Legion awarded bids budget business enterprise Chairperson Congress consideration to veterans contracting officer contractor cooperation Coordinator of Veterans counseling DASCHLE departments and agencies direct loans Director disabled veterans district offices entrepreneurs Executive Order Federal procurement field offices firms fiscal formal advertising Government Grey Berets groups hearings implement issue legislative loan officer management assistance mandate MAUK Max Cleland ment MOTTL National personnel PRENDERGAST priority problem proposals Public Law questions recommendations regional regulations request responsibility RIGGIN SBA officials SBA programs SBA's Senate services to veterans Small Business Act Small Business Administration special consideration specific statement subcommittee subcontracting submit testimony Thank tion Tompkins County United States Code veteran-owned businesses Veterans Administration Veterans Affairs Officers Veterans Federal Coordinating Veterans in Business veterans organizations veterans programs Vietnam Era veterans Vietnam Veterans Foundation White House White House Conference Wincek workshops
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Page 7 - veteran" means a person who served in the active military, naval, or air service, and who was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable.
Page 5 - Socially disadvantaged individuals are those who have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias because of their identity as a member of a group without regard to their individual qualities.
Page 160 - small business concern owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals," hereafter referred to as disadvantaged business, shall mean a small business concern: (1) which is at least 51 per centum owned by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals...
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