Small Businesses Severely Hurt by High Energy Prices by Rep. Sam Graves April 27, 2011 Over the course of the last two years, the cost of energy has skyrocketed. Since President Barack Obama took office, gas prices have doubled — with some cities averaging over $4 per gallon. These increases are crippling small businesses and American families. In fact, seven out of ten… Read more »

  Tax Simplification Will Help Small Business Thrive by Rep. Sam Graves April 20, 2011   As the April 18 IRS deadline passed, many American families and small-business owners breathed a collective sigh of relief after the stress of getting their taxes filed on time.  The United States tax code is a complex and contradictory… Read more »

  Republicans Find More to Cut From the S.B.A. Budget By Robb Mandelbaum  March 18, 2011 In April, House Republicans plan to lay out the broad outlines of their budget to fund the federal government for 2012, but this week the chairman of the House Small Business Committee revealed his spending priorities for the Small Business… Read more »

  Tough Choices on SBA Budget By Kent Hoover, Portfolio The House Small Business Committee doesn’t like much of anything the Small Business Administration has done over the past two years. This dissatisfaction could cost the agency nearly $100 million. That’s how much the committee recommends be cut from the SBA’s $985 million budget request for next year. These reductions can be… Read more »

House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) has released the following statement on the President’s proposal to repeal the Bush-era tax cuts, moments after chairing a hearing on the burden of the current tax code and the difficulty that entrepreneurs have in complying with it: “With an unemployment rate hovering around 9 percent, it is simply bad policy to raise taxes on… Read more »

  Lawmakers: SBIR Reauthorization Will Spur Job Growth By Kate Rogers April 07, 2011 The House of Representatives’ Small Business Subcommittee on Healthcare and Technology met Thursday for a hearing on "Creating Jobs Through Small Business Innovation." At the center of the hearing was a push from both House Democrats and Republicans to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation… Read more »

Lawmakers: SBIR Reauthorization Will Spur Job Growth By Kate Rogers April 07, 2011 The House of Representatives’ Small Business Subcommittee on Healthcare and Technology met Thursday for a hearing on "Creating Jobs Through Small Business Innovation." At the center of the hearing was a push from both House Democrats and Republicans to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research… Read more »

Stronger Regulatory Enforcement Will Spur Small Business Job Creation By Sam Graves April 6, 2011 By Sam GravesApril 6, 2011   Small businesses are the cornerstone of the American economy. They employ over half of the country’s private sector workforce and create seven out of every ten new jobs. The answer to our country’s long-term… Read more »

Stronger Regulatory Enforcement Will Spur Small Business Job Creation By Sam Graves April 6, 2011 By Sam GravesApril 6, 2011   Small businesses are the cornerstone of the American economy. They employ over half of the country’s private sector workforce and create seven out of every ten new jobs. The answer to our country’s long-term… Read more »

More Lawmakers Question Health-Care Waivers By Angus Loten March 24, 2011 Lawmakers on the House Small Business Committee want to know if smaller firms were among more than 1,000 entities granted health-care reform waivers last year by the Department of Health and Human Services. The one-year waivers provide exemptions… Read more »