Landrieu to Chair Hearing on the Role of Small Business in Recovery Act Contracting

Landrieu to Chair Hearing on the Role of Small Business in Recovery Act
Contracting

On Thursday, May 21, 2009, United States Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., Chair
of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, will hold a
hearing entitled "The Role of Small Business in Recovery Act Contracting." The
hearing will focus on increasing the amount of small businesses that will
receive contracts from Recovery Act funds.

Who: U.S. Senate Small Business Committee Chair Mary Landrieu, D-La.
Other Members of the Senate Small Business Committee

What: Hearing on "The Role of Small Business in Recovery Act Contracting."

When:Thursday, May 21, 2009
10:00 a.m.
Where: Room 428A, Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

PARTICIPANT LIST (for planning purposes only):
PANEL I:
Mr. Joe Jordan
Associate Administrator
Government Contracting & Business Development
U.S. Small Business Administration

Mr. Gerardo Franco
Chief of the Procurement Assistance Divisions Office
Office of Small & Disadvantaged Business Development
Department of Transportation

PANEL II:
Ms. Sharon Arnold
Owner
SSACC, Inc.

Mr. Joe Flynn
President
Association of Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (APTAC)

Ms. Sylvia Medina
President
North Wind, Inc

Ms. Theresa Daytner
President
Daytner Construction Group

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- May 19/
SOURCE U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship

Vicki Ekstrom of the U.S. Senate Small Business Committee, +1-202-224-9431,
vekstrom@sbc.senate.gov