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  • Graves Announces Committee Schedule for Week of April 22
    Apr 19, 2013 - Week Ahead for the Committee: April 22-26 Committee to Hold Hearings on Small Business Administration Budget and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce Shortage WASHINGTON, DC – The House Small Business Committee, chaired by Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), today announced the sche... More
  • Rice Subcommittee Examines The Role Of Innovative Small Businesses In The Economy
    Apr 18, 2013 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access Chairman Tom Rice (R-SC) today led a hearing on the role that innovative small businesses play in creating jobs, and how Washington can help spur more entrepreneurship. According to the Kauffman Foundatio... More
  • Hearing Highlights Small Business Challenges in Complying with the Health Care Law
    Apr 17, 2013 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Small Business Committee, led by Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), today held a hearing on the strain that complying with the complicated health care law places on small business. In the hearing, titled The Health Care Law: Implementation and Small Businesses, Committee Members to... More
  • Graves Challenges Agencies On The Role Of Small Business Advocates
    Apr 16, 2013 - House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) today wrote to 35 federal agencies challenging them to comply with the Small Business Act’s recently amended statute, requiring that agency Offices of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) remain a dedicated resource to help sm... More
  • Committee to Hold Hearing on Implementation of Health Care Law Tomorrow
    Apr 16, 2013 - Week Ahead for the Committee: April 15-19 Committee to Hold Hearing on Implementation of Health Care Law TOMORROW WASHINGTON, DC – The Small Business Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow titled, The Health Care Law: Implementation and Small Businesses. This hearing was rescheduled from last month ... More
  • Schweikert Subcommittee Questions SEC on ‘JOBS’ Act Rules Delay
    Apr 11, 2013 - House Small Business Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations Chairman David Schweikert (R-AZ) today led the 113th Congress’ first hearing on the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. This hearing focused specifically on the sluggish implementation of ‘JOBS’ Act rule promulgat... More
  • Chairman Graves Statement on President’s FY2014 Budget
    Apr 10, 2013 - House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) issued the following statements on the President’s FY2014 Budget overall, and the Small Business Administration (SBA) Budget specifically. The White House Budget was released today, more than nine weeks past the February 4th deadline. “With t... More
  • Hearing Highlights Tax Reform’s Benefits to Small Businesses, Features Chairman Camp’s Testimony
    Apr 10, 2013 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Small Business Committee, led by Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), today held a hearing that highlighted the benefits to small businesses from tax reform and simplification, and for the first time since 1979, the Committee heard testimony from the House Ways and Means Chairman... More
  • Graves Announces Committee Schedule for Week of April 8
    Apr 5, 2013 - Week Ahead for the Committee: April 8-12 Committee to Hold Hearings on Small Business Tax Reform and Crowd Funding WASHINGTON, DC – The Committee on Small Business, chaired by Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), today announced the schedule for the week of April 8, 2013: On Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at 1:00 p.... More
  • New Small Business Surveys: Uncertainty and ObamaCare Causing Main Street to Miss Out on Wall Street Recovery
    Apr 4, 2013 - WASHINGTON, DC – House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) today responded to the latest survey of small business owners by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and said that small businesses are still hampered by uncertainties caused by the federal government. The survey also shows that co... More

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