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  • Wall Street Journal: CEOs Press Congress on Debt
    May 11, 2012 - Wall Street Journal: CEOs Press Congress on Debt Executives Step Into Deficit Debate Amid Fears of Looming Tax, Spending Measures By Damian Paletta May 11, 2012 WASHINGTON—Top business executives, many of whom sat on their hands during last year's frantic debate about raising the federal debt ceili... More
  • Bloomberg Government: Small Vendor Protests Delay $32 Billion U.S. Drug Contract
    Apr 4, 2012 - Small Vendor Protests Delay $32 Billion U.S. Drug Contract By Kathleen Miller DMS Pharmaceutical Group Inc. says it’s had enough. After the Department of Veterans Affairs excluded small businesses from its largest contract for the third time, the 25-employee Park Ridge, Illinois, drug wholesaler fi... More
  • Small Businesses Short-Changed on U.S. Contracts for 10 Years
    Mar 29, 2012 - Small Businesses Short-Changed on U.S. Contracts for 10 Years The U.S. government has missed its small-business contracting goal every year in the past decade, a sign of the continuing barriers facing companies seeking federal work. The government has a target of awarding 23 percent of eligible pri... More
  • Associated Press: Small Biz Contracting Leads House Committee Agenda
    Mar 28, 2012 - Associated Press: Small Biz Contracting Leads House Committee Agenda By Joyce Rosenberg WASHINGTON (AP) — It sounds like a gold mine for small businesses: The more than half a trillion dollars that the federal government pays companies each year for all kinds of equipment and services. But winning ... More
  • CQ: House Committee Calls for Agencies to Justify Bundling of Private Contracts
    Mar 22, 2012 - House Committee Calls for Agencies to Justify Bundling of Private Contracts By Eugene Mulero and Danielle Parnass March 22, 2012 In response to growing concerns from small businesses, a House panel Thursday approved a bill that would require federal agencies to justify decisions on bundling contrac... More
  • Lawmakers Demand Crackdown on U.S. Program Enriching Wealthy
    Feb 22, 2012 - Lawmakers Demand Crackdown on U.S. Program Enriching Wealthy By Danielle Ivory, Elliot Blair Smith and Gopal Ratnam, Bloomberg Government February 22, 2012 Two top lawmakers on small business matters renewed calls for tougher enforcement of the rules in a program that steers government contracts to... More
  • House lawmakers push for additional small business contracting reforms
    Feb 8, 2012 - House Lawmakers Push for Additional Small Business Contracting Reforms By J.D. Harrison February 8, 2012 One week after proposing legislation to raise small firms’ allotment of federal spending, House lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a trio of bipartisan bills intended to further reform small busi... More
  • CQ: GOP Appropriator Determined to Stop Proposed Revisions to Child Labor Law
    Feb 3, 2012 - GOP Appropriator Determined to Stop Proposed Revisions to Child Labor Law By Ellyn Ferguson, CQ A senior Republican appropriator on Thursday vowed to stop the Labor Department from revising agriculture-safety rules for child workers, despite the agency’s decision to reconsider a proposal that farme... More
  • AgriPulse: Proposed DOL Child Labor Regs Draw Fire From All Sides
    Feb 1, 2012 - Proposed DOL Child Labor Regs Draw Fire From All Sides Agripulse The Department of Labor is likely to be in the hot seat Thursday when a House subcommittee reviews proposed regulations that could restrict how children work on U.S. farms and ranches. The plan, which has generated more than 10,000 pu... More
  • Bonuses to Be Cut at Agencies Failing Small Business Under Bill
    Jan 31, 2012 - Bonuses to Be Cut at Agencies Failing Small Business Under Bill By Nick Taborek, Bloomberg Government Thousands of federal government executives risk losing their bonuses under a bill that would establish the first penalties for agencies failing to meet small-business contracting goals. U.S. Represe... More

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