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  • Graves Rejects Costly, Inefficient Small Business Lending Bill
    Sep 23, 2010 - House Small Business Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) today voted against the Senate version of H.R. 5297, calling the bill a missed opportunity to help small businesses. H.R. 5297 passed the House by a vote of 237 to 187, with 13 Democrats joining 174 Republicans in voting no. In a speech... More
  • Christian Science Monitor: Small Business Bill Won't Actually Help Small Businesses
    Sep 20, 2010 - By Jeff Cornwall; Christian Science Monitor It looks like the so-called Small Business Bill is about to become law. So what will it offer our ailing small businesses? More debt and more government intervention. Most of the attempt at stimulating small business in the Small Business Bill comes in the... More
  • Wall Street Journal: The Small Business Credit Crunch
    May 17, 2010 - By Meredith Whitney; Wall Street Journal The next several weeks will be critically important for politicians, regulators and the larger U.S. economy. First, over the next week Capitol Hill will decide on potentially game-changing regulatory reform that could result in the unintended consequences of ... More
  • Wall Street Journal: U.S. Government Programs Have Yet to Boost Small Business Lending
    May 13, 2010 - By Meen Thiruvengadam; Wall Street Journal U.S. efforts to stabilize the financial system have done little to boost small business lending and it remains unclear what impact the Obama administration's latest lending push will have, a report released Thursday said. The report from the Congressional O... More
  • Business Week: Big Banks' Small-Business Lending Promises
    May 4, 2010 - By John Tozzi, Business Week Are banks lending more to small businesses? It's hard to say. What's called "small business lending" cuts across several business lines at most banks, from real estate to credit cards, and few lenders report separate figures for small businesses. Still, late last year, u... More
  • Charlotte Sun Weekly and Herald: U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan hears small business leaders' lending concerns
    Apr 20, 2010 - By Carol Sakowitz, Charlotte Sun Weekly and Herald Area small business leaders aired their concerns regarding the current difficulty in obtaining bank loans to U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, Monday at a field hearing conducted at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee Campus near the... More
  • Ranking Member Graves: It’s Time For A Commitment To Real Growth
    Mar 3, 2010 - For more than a year, Americans across the country have been asking, “Where are the jobs?” as our economy continues to struggle. Unemployment still hovers around 10 percent. New-home sales have plummeted to a record low. Retail sales remain weak, and consumer confidence has dropped to the lowest lev... More
  • Committees Review Access to Capital for Small Businesses
    Feb 26, 2010 - Today the House Committee on Small Business and the House Committee on Financial Services held a joint hearing entitled, “Condition of Small Business and Commercial Real Estate Lending in Local Markets.” The hearing focused on the struggles that small businesses have in obtaining credit and the reas... More
  • House Small Business Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves on President's Small Business Lending Plan
    Feb 2, 2010 - House Small Business Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), issued the following statement today on the White House’s proposal to spend $30 billion on a new small business lending plan: “After a year in office, the administration has finally decided to focus on creating jobs. Unfortunately, the... More
  • Small Business Financing Bill Passes in House
    Oct 29, 2009 - Today H.R. 3854, the Small Business Financing and Investment Act of 2009, passed by a vote of 389 to 32. The bill is designed to strengthen the ability of small businesses to obtain needed capital. Ranking Member Sam Graves of the House Small Business Committee commented on the passage of the bill: ... More

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