Key Small Business Committee Provisions Included in Defense Bill Click Image to View Chairman Chabot's NDAA Floor Speech WASHINGTON - House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH) made the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the conference report of the FY17 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). “The FY17 NDAA recognizes that small businesses play a vital and indispensable role in providing for the common defense,” Chairman Chabot said. “Small busines...
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WASHINGTON - House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH) made the following statement after a federal judge enjoined President Obama’s controversial executive order imposing costly new rules on how employers pay overtime to their workers. The nationwide preliminary injuction delays the December 1st implementation deadline, giving small employers more time to plan for and fight back against the burdensome new mandate. “Judge Mazzant’s injunction is a victory for America’s 28 milli...
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WASHINGTON - House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH) has demanded regular updates from Wells Fargo after the company admitted that thousands of accounts owned by small businesses were harmed by the improper sales practices of Wells Fargo employees. Chairman Chabot’s letter is a follow-up to official inquiries the Committee made last month to both Wells Fargo and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to determine the scandal’s impact on any Wells Fargo accounts associated w...
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WASHINGTON – House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and all Chairmen of the standing committees of the U.S. House of Representatives this evening warned the Obama Administration against enacting any last-minute rules and regulations in their final days in office. In their letter, addressed to the heads of all Cabinet departments and federal agencies, the House Republican leaders wrote: “Earlier this year, President Obama’s Chief ...
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WASHINGTON - House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH) and Ranking Member Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), wrote to the Office of Management and Budget criticizing the implementation of Category Management, a procurement policy that has been shown to negatively harm small businesses. “By moving ahead with its Category Management scam, OMB has decided to deny small businesses the ability to fully and fairly compete for federal contracts,” Chairman Chabot said. “I will continue to work...
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WASHINGTON – House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH) and Ranking Member Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) led a bipartisan group of lawmakers in asking Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell to review new Medicare regulations that may harm small medical laboratories and the senior citizens they serve. The letter was signed by several members of the Small Business Committee in response to concerns over the Department of Health and Human Services implementation of the...
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WASHINGTON - House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH) made the following statement on the resignation of Wells Fargo CEO John G. Stumpf: “Mr. Stumpf’s resignation is a first step but there are countless more steps Wells Fargo must take to correct the damage their employees did to millions of Americans by creating fraudulent accounts in their names without their permission. The egregious nature of these actions cannot be overstated. The next step should be for Wells Fargo to fu...
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WASHINGTON —Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) today announced that the Committee’s newest Member, Congressman Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) has been named to the Small Business Committee’s Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access and the Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations. Chairman Chabot said, “Ohio has one of the most remarkable small business stories in the country, and Congressman Davidson and his family have been a part of that story. I...
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Small Businesses May Have Been Penalized for Accounts They Never Opened WASHINGTON –Today, House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH) sent letters to Maria Contreras-Sweet, the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), and John G. Stumpf, the Chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo, pressing for information about how small businesses may have been harmed by fraudulent accounts created by Wells Fargo employees. Wells Fargo is the single largest participant in SBA’s ...
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WASHINGTON – Members of the House Small Business Committee have joined together to lead the introduction of a bipartisan House resolution to recognize the Saturday after Thanksgiving, November 26th, as “Small Business Saturday.” “America’s small businesses, entrepreneurs, and innovators need to be assured that we are fighting on their behalf, and that they have a voice in Washington.” Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH) said. “Support for America’s small businesses reaches beyo...
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