CQ: After Five Months and No Reply From Sebelius on IT-Related Inquiry, Small Business Panel Complains November 13, 2012 By John Reichard The head of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Technology says it’s been five months since she asked HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about federal efforts to protect against injuries from faulty health information technology, and she still has… Read more »

Periscope Maker Closes as Small Vendors Head for Fiscal Cliff  September 20, 2012 12:00AM ET | Bloomberg Government  (Bloomberg) -- After a half-century of making periscopes for armored vehicles, Miller-holzwarth Inc. shut down, having struggled with U.S. military budget cuts and the threat of more reductions to come. Jennifer Moll, 45, owner of the Salem, Ohio-based… Read more »

Bloomberg BNA: Proposal to Raise Top Tax Rates Ignores Challenges for Passthroughs, Witnesses Say September 13, 2012 Sept. 13 (BNA) - Allowing the top tax rates to rise on households earning more than $250,000 may sound appealing to those looking to reduce the nation's deficit without inflicting more pain on the economy, but witnesses before the House Small Business Committee… Read more »

Bloomberg BNA: Republicans Question Authority, Justification, Use of Treasury's Small Business Definition The administration is using questionable legal authority in its attempt to change the definition of small business, a move which could skew… Read more »

CQ: GOP Lawmakers Criticize Year-Old Report on Defining ‘Small Business’ Two GOP lawmakers are angry with Treasury Department officials for a year-old study that offers a narrower definition of “small businesses” than the one often used by… Read more »

Politico: Genachowski draws fire on USF reform By Eliza Krigman FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski drew fire from House lawmakers Wednesday over the agency’s revamp of the Universal Service Fund. … Read more »

ModernHealthcare.com: Lawmaker Asks HHS for Health IT Oversight Plan By Joseph Conn Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) is following up with HHS on a November 2011 report from the Institute of Medicine that called for increased… Read more »

Obama's Health Care Aid to Small Firms Disappoints By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar … Read more »

Bloomberg Government: Measure to Dock Federal Executive Bonuses Weakened by U.S. Panel By Nick Taborek May 11, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. congressional committee weakened a proposal that would have automatically eliminated the bonuses of top federal executives whose agencies missed targets for awarding contracts to small businesses.   The bonus-busting measure was proposed in… Read more »

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 ceiling, have begun mobilizing and plan to be more vocal in urging Congress to reach… Read more »