Spending Cuts Mean More Small Business Job Creation By Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) March 17, 2011 At the start of the 112th Congress, my fellow Republicans and I made a commitment to turn the country’s economy around and get Americans back to work. Over the past two years in the minority, we could do little as… Read more »

Spending Cuts Mean More Small Business Job Creation By Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) March 17, 2011 At the start of the 112th Congress, my fellow Republicans and I made a commitment to turn the country’s economy around and get Americans back to work. Over the past two years in the minority, we could do little as the Obama Administration’s and Nancy Pelosi’s reckless spending increased our… Read more »

House Small Business Subcommittee Chairman Mike Coffman Talks Small Business Job Creation, the Federal Budget And Our Massive Debt on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO), Chairman of the Small Business Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations, appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington… Read more »

The Hill: Let’s Get Serious About Job Creation By Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) March 9, 2011 Our nation is facing one of the toughest economic climates since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate has been 8.9% or more for 23 months. The amount of time that the average job seeker has been unemployed is about 37 weeks, the highest average in history. These staggering statistics don’t… Read more »

The Hill: Let’s Get Serious About Job Creation By Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) March 9, 2011 Our nation is facing one of the toughest economic climates since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate has been 8.9% or more for 23 months. The amount of time that the average job seeker has been unemployed is about 37 weeks, the highest average in history. These staggering statistics don’t… Read more »

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Bloomberg Politics The U.S. House of Representatives will vote as soon as next month on a measure to eliminate a tax- reporting requirement from last year’s health-care law that is opposed by many small businesses. The U.S. House of Representatives will vote as soon as next month on a measure to eliminate a tax- reporting requirement from last year’s health-care law that is opposed… Read more »

The Huffington Post Business  After spending much of last year relentlessly touting the benefits of a proposed $30 billion fund that would jumpstart bank lending to small businesses, the Obama administration forecasts the initiative will fall far short, spending just a little over half of the intended allotment, according to the White House's spending plan for 2012. After spending… Read more »

The Wall Street Journal Financing and Investing President Obama's fiscal 2012 budget proposal for the Small Business Administration asks Congress for $985 million—45% less than the $1.8 billion that the agency received in 2010. "We have to tighten our belt, too," said SBA Administrator Karen Mills on a conference call. "We looked through to see if there are programs that are… Read more »

Carroll County Times Local News A mandate in the federal health-care reform law could cause a significant burden on small businesses like his own, a Hampstead jeweler told a House committee. A mandate in the federal health-care reform law could cause a significant burden on small businesses like his own, a Hampstead jeweler told a House committee.A mandate in the federal health-care… Read more »