Chairman Chabot on FoxNews.com: When small businesses succeed, America succeeds November 27, 2015 Three guys walk into a Small Business Administration regional office – a shopkeeper, a rancher and an app developer. No, that’s not the set-up for a bad joke. It’s a useful way of thinking about how policymakers must expand our understanding of small business in the 21st Century. Only by clearly understanding and appreciating the changing face of small business in America can we enact meaningful ref...
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Celebrate, Support our Small Businesses Cincinnati Enquirer Nov. 27, 2015 U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot, a Westwood Republican, is chairman of the House Committee on Small Business. “We’ve come a long way in less than a decade and one thing’s for sure, Ohio is flyover country no more.” When local tech entrepreneur Chris Ostoich said those words to the House Small Business Committee last week, it certainly wasn’t news to me. Since I became chairman of the Small Business Committee earlier this year, I’ve...
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Chabot: Small Businesses Need Trade Priorities and Accountability from Washington As seen in the Washington Examiner Ninety-nine percent of American companies are actually small businesses, and they employ over half of the entire American workforce. When you stop and consider the fact that only two out of every 100 of those companies participate in international trade, it's obvious we're just not thinking big enough anymore. The Trade Priorities and Accountability Act doesn't just help us think...
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Answering the Small Business SOS REP. STEVE CHABOT • MAY 8, 2015 This is National Small Business Week, a great time to consider the role small businesses play in communities across America and their invaluable place at the center of the American economy. With small businesses accounting for more than half of our GDP and comprising over 99 percent of America’s employers, it’s clear the future of our small businesses is the future of America. Often, the biggest hurdle a small business faces is sim...
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Small Businesses Deserve More Than 'Functionally Obsolete' By Rep. Steve Chabot April 17, 2015 Roll Call We’re still in the first days of spring, but I know one of the highlights of the summer for me and for my district is going to be Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game at Great American Ballpark on the Cincinnati riverfront. Not only are baseball fans gearing up for this fun tradition, but the countless small businesses that support the sports industry as a whole, and the city of Cincinnati,...
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Chairman Chabot's Commentary on CNBC.com: The big problem with taxes on small business Original Article It's here. A day that nobody looks forward to. A day when we have to reach into our pockets and cut a check for Uncle Sam: Tax Day. While it has never been the most popular day of the year, somehow, Tax Day – and all of the stress, labor, and money that go into preparing for it —has gotten worse, particularly for family businesses and entrepreneurs. Every year Americans spend 6.1 billion hour...
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Why Small Business Is the Key to Our Economy Small businesses are failing faster than they're starting up. Here's why that needs to change--and what we can do to make it happen. BY STEVE CHABOT Chairman, House Committee on Small Business@HouseSmallBiz Running a small business is a tough job. As any entrepreneur knows, you often wear many hats. No matter your title, at some point you will act as your own tax accountant, marketing executive, regulatory expert, fundraiser, and human resources supe...
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Live Long and Prosper – Unless You’re a Small Business SMALL BUSINESS COMMITTEE • MARCH 3, 2015 The famous words of the late Leonard Nimoy’s space adventurer Spock speak to the goals – but not necessarily the reality – of today’s small businesses. We all want small businesses to live long and prosper – that means jobs. It means vibrant communities. It means the ladder of opportunity is within reach for more Americans. And while this has been the case for most our nation’s history – new data pain...
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