In these difficult economic times, our government needs to take every step to make sure small businesses can thrive.  These employers have created seven out of every ten jobs in recent decades, and with unemployment still hovering around ten percent, it is clear that small businesses will play a critical role in stabilizing our economy.  However, instead of encouraging job creation… Read more »

By Grace-Marie Turner, New York Post Small businesses have the highest hopes for health reform, but they'd be big losers under the bills Congress is debating. For more than 20 years, small-business owners have listed health costs as their No. 1 concern. But leading "reform" bills would make things worse -- ballooning expenses for firms that now offer insurance and slamming companies… Read more »

Small businesses have the highest hopes for health reform, but they'd be big losers under the bills Congress is debating. For more than 20 years, small-business owners have listed health costs as their No. 1 concern. But leading "reform" bills would make things worse -- ballooning expenses for firms that now offer insurance and slamming companies that can't afford the benefit. The… Read more »

Hearing: “The Challenges of the 2009-H1N1 Influenza and its Potential Impact on Small Businesses and Healthcare Providers” WASHINGTON- The House Committee on Small Business will hold a hearing entitled, “The Challenges of the 2009-H1N1 Influenza and its Potential Impact on Small Businesses and Healthcare Providers,” on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 1:00pm in Room 2360 of the Rayburn… Read more »

Yesterday, Fox News’ Glenn Beck held a small business roundtable with small business owners from all over the country. They discussed how President Obama and Speaker Pelosi’s health care reform legislation and the cap and trade tax would devastate small business owners and lead to further job losses. View Clip Here. Read more »

Yesterday, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Small Business Sam Graves appeared on MSNBC’s “Your Business.”  He discussed how the Administration’s and Speaker Pelosi’s health care reform legislation will devastate small businesses around the country and lead to further job loss. View Clip Here.       Read more »

Today, Fox News’ Neil Cavuto interviewed small business owner Judy Briggs.  They discussed how President Obama and Speaker Pelosi’s health care reform legislation would devastate small business owners and lead to further job loss. View Video here         Read more »

Today, Ranking Member Sam Graves spoke in opposition to the Rule for the FY10 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Act.  The Rule failed to make in order Ranking Member Graves’ amendment that would have  protected small businesses from mandates in Speaker Pelosi’s health care legislation View Clip here   Read more »

Congress: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill.  Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways… Read more »

The 1,018-page initiative contains several components pushed by liberal Democrats that were long expected to be part of House legislation, but which face considerable opposition in the Senate. Most notably, the House bill creates a new public health-insurance plan aimed at individuals and small businesses that otherwise can't get affordable coverage. The House measure would bar insurance… Read more »