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 »

Friday, June 26, 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 on SBIR awards to VC-owned firms • Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer Concerns Over Dangerous Energy Tax Pending in Congress • Rep. Louie Gohmert will host East Texas Job Fair in Longview Must-Reads from the… Read more »

*** COMMITTEE HEARING***   Markup of Legislation Modernizing the SBIR and STTR Programs WASHINGTON- The House Committee on Small Business will hold a markup on legislation to reauthorize and modernize the Small Business Administration’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. WHAT:              Markup of Legislation Modernizing… Read more »

Friday, June 19, 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  wants to Slow Energy Legislation • Rep. Buchanan on Fox Business News • Rep. Steve King on Fox Business News • Rep. Bartlett will host a GO Green Conference Must-Reads from the Week: • The New York… Read more »