*** COMMITTEE HEARING*** Hearing: “Legislative Proposals to Reform the SBA’s Capital Access Programs”  WASHINGTON- The House Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Finance and Tax, will hold a hearing entitled, “Legislative Proposals to Reform the SBA’s Capital Access Programs”, on Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 10:00 am in Room 2360 of the Rayburn House Office Building.  The… Read more »

*** MEDIA ADVISORY *** Hearing: “Meeting the Needs of Small Businesses and Family Farmers in Regulating our Nation’s Waters” WASHINGTON- The House Committee on Small Business will hold a hearing entitled, “Meeting the Needs of Small Businesses and Family Farmers in Regulating our Nation’s Waters,” on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 1:00pm in Room 2360 of the Rayburn House Office Building. … Read more »

*** COMMITTEE HEARING *** Hearing: “Meeting the Needs of Small Businesses and Family Farmers in Regulating our Nation’s Waters” WASHINGTON- The House Committee on Small Business will hold a hearing entitled, “Meeting the Needs of Small Businesses and Family Farmers in Regulating our Nation’s Waters,” on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 1:00pm in Room 2360 of the Rayburn House Office… Read more »

Friday, July 17, 2009 News from Ranking Member Sam Graves and Committee Republicans: (Please send any member media activity to angela.landers@mail.house.gov) • Ranking Member Sam Graves in St. Joe News Press: “Local voices debate health care legislation” • Rep. Mary Fallin from the Hill Blog: Healthcare Reform: You won't necessarily get what you pay for • Rep. Vern Buchanan on House… 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 »

Jason Furman owes an apology to Michael Boskin, the Stanford economist who wrote a year ago on these pages that Barack Obama would raise American income tax rates nearly to 60%. Mr. Furman, then in the Obama campaign and now at the White House, claimed this was wrong and that Democrats would merely raise taxes back to their Clinton-era level. House Democrats are now proving that Mr.… Read more »

Friday, July 10, 2009 News from Ranking Member Sam Graves and Committee Republicans: (Please send any member media activity to angela.landers@mail.house.gov) • Ranking Member Graves and Rep. Aaron Schock in St. Joe News Press: “House passes small-business bill” • Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer in Missourinet: “Introduces Bill to benefit small business” Must-Reads from the… Read more »

*** MEDIA ADVISORY *** Hearing – “Helping Small Business Innovators through the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit” WASHINGTON- The House Small Business Committee, Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology will hold a hearing titled, “Helping Small Business Innovators through the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit” (also known as the R&D tax credit) on Thursday, July 9,… Read more »

*** COMMITTEE HEARING *** Hearing – “Helping Small Business Innovators through the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit” WASHINGTON- The House Small Business Committee, Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology will hold a hearing titled, “Helping Small Business Innovators through the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit” (also known as the R&D tax credit) on Thursday, July… Read more »