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 »

    This week, House Republicans are focused on passing legislation that provides regulatory relief for small businesses. Their regulatory cost is 36 percent higher than the costs facing larger companies. Here are… 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 »

How Will Taxmageddon Impact Your Small Business? Without Congressional action, a large number of tax provisions will expire on December 31, 2012. Many of these expiring provisions were enacted in tax legislation in 2001 and 2003 and reduced marginal income tax rates, marriage penalty rates, and the estate tax. President Obama's plan to expire tax rates for all… Read more »

    Wall Street Journal Editorial: 'You Didn't Build That' On the President's burst of ideological candor... Tuesday, July 17, 2012 The Presidential election has a long way to go, but the line of the year so far is President Obama's on Friday: "You didn't build… Read more »

 Today, House Small Business Committee Chairman appeared on the Fox Business Network to discuss today's NFIB Small Business Optimism report, showing the lowest level since October 2011. June’s Index of Small Business Optimism dove three points, falling to 91.4. The drop from 94.4 in May marks the largest month-to-month decline since June 2010.   CLICK… Read more »

   President Obama today called for increasing taxes on income above $250,000, which would harm many small businesses. In response to this proposal, American small business owners shared their… 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 »