Microbusiness Owners Clue In Congress
Jun 30th, 2008 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Politics & PolicyThis is a story that started with a House Small Business Committee hearing a couple of months ago. Members were interested in learning more about online small businesses but they didn’t learn much because they directed their questions to executives from Google and Amazon.com — who might know some things about what online microbusinesses do but very little about how we do it. Upon hearing a suggestion that curious Congresspersons would do better to ask directly, Congressman Charles Gonzalez (D-TX) convened a subcommittee hearing last week that featured a panel of microbusiness witnesses prepared to give panel members a quick course in Online Advertising 101. The lawmakers in the room probably learned more than they have been able to from years of hearings on related issues. More importantly, the hearing set a congressional precedent for seeking input from real world microbusinesses, a most heartening development.
