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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ACA's Full-Time Work Definition Must Change, Lawmakers, Business Owner Tell Hearing
    Apr 17, 2013 - ACA's Full-Time Work Definition Must Change, Lawmakers, Business Owner Tell Hearing By Bloomberg BNA April 17, 2013 The Republican chairman of the House Small Business Committee, a Democratic committee member, and a small business owner testifying before the panel agreed April 17 that the definition... 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
  • Graves in Politico: Small Businesses Need Tax Reform
    Apr 15, 2013 - Small Businesses Need Tax Reform By Chairman Sam Graves April 15, 2013 Here we are on Tax Day, the time of year to rightfully reflect on our nation’s tax system. Most Americans immediately experience tax pain in terms of how much they pay to Uncle Sam. For our nation’s small businesses, the complex... More
  • Jamie Dimon: Small Businesses Remain Cautious
    Apr 12, 2013 - Jamie Dimon: Small Businesses Remain Cautious By David Benoit April 12, 2013 J.P. Morgan and its Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon painted a bleak picture of the consumer and small business lending environment Friday morning. The bank broadly beat estimates, with a 33% jump in profit to $6.53 billion for... More

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