Despite Overwhelming Negative Feedback, Obama’s Small Business Chief Unaware of Small Businesses Struggling With Obamacare SBA Administrator Says She Hasn’t Heard Of Any Small Firms Who Strain To Comply With Obamacare Requirements Last week, President Obama’s head of the Small Business Administration, Karen Mil that she was unaware that small firms are struggling with Obamacare… Read more »

CQ: After Five Months and No Reply From Sebelius on IT-Related Inquiry, Small Business Panel Complains November 13, 2012 By John Reichard The head of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Technology says it’s been five months since she asked HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about federal efforts to protect against injuries from faulty health information technology, and she still has… Read more »

Periscope Maker Closes as Small Vendors Head for Fiscal Cliff  September 20, 2012 12:00AM ET | Bloomberg Government  (Bloomberg) -- After a half-century of making periscopes for armored vehicles, Miller-holzwarth Inc. shut down, having struggled with U.S. military budget cuts and the threat of more reductions to come. Jennifer Moll, 45, owner of the Salem, Ohio-based… Read more »

     Ahead of Thursday's hearing, Sequestration: The Threat to Small Businesses, Jobs, and the Industrial Base, American small business owners shared how sequestration will impact their company… Read more »

Bloomberg BNA: Proposal to Raise Top Tax Rates Ignores Challenges for Passthroughs, Witnesses Say September 13, 2012 Sept. 13 (BNA) - Allowing the top tax rates to rise on households earning more than $250,000 may sound appealing to those looking to reduce the nation's deficit without inflicting more pain on the economy, but witnesses before the House Small Business Committee… Read more »

House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) today announced that the Committee will hold a hearing on the impact of sequestration on small business federal contractors. The hearing, titled, Sequestration: The Threat to Small Businesses, Jobs, and the Industrial Base, is scheduled to begin at 1:00 P.M. on September 20, 2012 in Room 2360 of the Rayburn House Office… Read more »

    Committee to Hold Hearings on the Fiscal Cliff, Aviation User Fees and Medicare Competitive Bidding Program The House Small Business Committee, chaired by Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), today announced the schedule for the week of September 10, 2012: On Tuesday, September 11, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. the Small Business Subcommittee on Healthcare and Technology, under the… Read more »

Bloomberg BNA: Republicans Question Authority, Justification, Use of Treasury's Small Business Definition The administration is using questionable legal authority in its attempt to change the definition of small business, a move which could skew… Read more »

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 »