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  • Politico: GOP: Insurance tax hurts small businesses
    May 9, 2013 - GOP: Insurance tax hurts small businesses By Paige Winfield Cunningham, Politico May 9, 2013 House Republicans homed in on the health law’s insurance tax Thursday, saying it’s yet another blow small businesses will have to endure as a result of the law. The health insurance tax will have calamitous... More
  • What Small Business Owners Are Saying About Obama's Regulatory Record
    May 8, 2013 - Small companies don’t have the resources that large corporations have to focus on regulatory compliance, and as a result, small businesses bear a regulatory cost that is 36% higher than large businesses. Ahead of today's committee hearing on this very topic, small business owners shared how current... More
  • Committee Examines Obama Administration’s Record on Regulatory Costs
    May 8, 2013 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Small Business Committee, led by Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), today examined the Obama administration’s record of increasing the regulatory cost burden on small businesses, despite its directive to reduce it. On January 18, 2011, in an executive order, President Obama dir... More
  • Graves in FoxNews.com: A Train Wreck for Small Businesses
    Apr 26, 2013 - A Train Wreck for Small Businesses By Chairman Sam Graves The health care law is “the most disruptive instrument to the American workplace in my lifetime.” That’s the perspective of Richmond businessman William J. Goldin, Jr., president of family-owned Strange’s Florists, Greenhouses and Garden Cen... More
  • Hanna Subcommittee Identifies Small Business STEM Workforce Needs and Possible Immigration Solutions
    Apr 25, 2013 - House Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce Chairman Richard Hanna (R-NY) today led a hearing on the small business Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) workforce shortage and how immigration reform could help address the problem. Many small businesses report a shorta... More
  • Hearing on SBA Budget Exposes Questionable Spending Priorities
    Apr 24, 2013 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Small Business Committee, led by Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), today held a hearing to address the budgetary situation of the Small Business Administration (SBA) for the rest of this fiscal year and fiscal year 2014. The lone witness at the hearing was SBA Administrator Ka... More
  • 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
  • Steaming Toward the ObamaCare 'Train Wreck'
    Apr 18, 2013 - Steaming Toward the ObamaCare 'Train Wreck' By Karl Rove, The Wall Street Journal April 18, 2013 In congressional testimony last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius blamed Republican governors for her department's failure to create a "model exchange" where consumers could sho... 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
  • VIDEO: Small Businesses Dread Compliance With The Health Care Law
    Apr 18, 2013 - “I realize that this law would be the most disruptive instrument to the American workplace in my lifetime" Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Three years after passage of the health care law, the House Small Business Committee held a hearing with small businesses and a former CBO Dir... More

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