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  • The Health Care Law & Small Businesses
    Dec 6, 2012 - The Committee Provides Tools To Help Small Businesses Overcome Health Care Compliance Challenges During a tough economic climate, small businesses face many challenges in order to grow and create jobs. One of those challenges is the 2010 health care law and its many mandates, regulatory hurdles, an... More
  • What Small Business Owners Are Saying About The Fiscal Cliff
    Dec 5, 2012 - While the President and Congressional Republicans negotiate a plan to avoid the Fiscal Cliff, small business owners shared their opinions on the President’s proposal to raise taxes on income above $250,000 through the Committee’s interactive website, “Small Biz Open Mic.” There are about 31 million... More
  • Despite Overwhelming Negative Feedback, Obama’s Small Business Chief Unaware of Small Businesses Struggling With Obamacare
    Nov 26, 2012 - 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 Administrati... More
  • What Small Business Owners Are Saying About The Impact Of Sequestration
    Sep 19, 2012 - 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 through the Committee’s interactive website, “Small Biz Open Mic”: ___________________________________________... More
  • What Small Business Owners Are Saying About Regulation
    Jul 24, 2012 - 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 some comments from small businesses on how unnecessary federal regulations are holding th... More
  • Small Business Tax Increases on January 1, 2013
    Jul 19, 2012 - 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... More
  • Wall Street Journal Editorial:'You Didn't Build That'
    Jul 17, 2012 - 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 that." Rarely do politicians so clearly r... More
  • Chairman Graves Talks Small Business Optimism on Fox Business
    Jul 10, 2012 - 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 la... More
  • What Small Business Owners Are Saying About The President's Plan To Raise Taxes
    Jul 9, 2012 - 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 opinion through the Committee’s interactive website, “Small Biz Open Mic”: __________________________________... More
  • Graves Discusses Questionable Government Contract on CNN’s AC360
    Dec 9, 2011 - Graves: "You certainly can't ignore the political connections between the company and the administration.” WASHINGTON, D.C.— Last night, House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) participated in a special report by CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 on a suspicious $433-million government con... More

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