At a press conference held in Washington last week, Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chairwoman Mary Landrieu (D-LA) took the podium to talk about what Congressional Democrats have done for small businesses and to plug their latest efforts in the current jobs bill that is, they say, being held up by Senate Republicans. [...]

It’s kind of odd when you stop to consider it. We keep hearing about how Congressional budget hawks have been waking up and are starting to complain that Uncle Sam is going too far into debt. In fact, that sort of thing is what has supposedly caused Senate Republicans to dig in their heels and [...]

Last week, I told you about new legislation introduced by Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chairwoman Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Committee Member Ben Cardin (D-MD) to improve the 8(a) program for “socially and economically disadvantaged” entrepreneurs — with a focus on federal procurement. Chairwoman Landrieu spent still more time on the issue of [...]

If you wanted to support a business in your community through a severe economic downturn, there are only two ways you could do that directly. You would have to either give the business owner money to invest in his business (equity capital) or you would have to buy things from that business. Most people are [...]

It seems pretty clear that the Obama Administration wants businesses to start hiring again and that they want that to happen really badly. The President has been doing a certain amount of campaigning to let citizens know what he’s been doing to deal with an unemployment rates that is stubbornly hovering at around 10%. It’s [...]

It seems as if it was broadband week on Capitol Hill, as both the House and Senate Small Business Committees played host to meetings to discuss high speed Internet access and its impact on small businesses. Over in the House, Committee Chairwoman Nydia Velázquez convened a hearing last Wednesday that was immediately striking because it [...]

During his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Obama announced his goal to double U.S. exports within the next five years. It seems a laudable goal for a CEO-in-Chief. The economy has been pretty much in the tank since before Obama took office. The job market is only just starting to show [...]

When the House got finished with her, SBA Administrator Karen Mills faced a somewhat friendlier panel on the Senate side of Capitol Hill. The Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship finally held its second budget hearing of the 111th Congress last week. Very naturally, Chairwoman Mary Landrieu (D-LA) was full of praise for President [...]

SBA Administrator Karen Mills had a busy day last Wednesday. Before she appeared before the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship to defend her agency’s fiscal 2011 budget request, she joined SBA Inspector General Peggy Gustafson at an oversight hearing before the House Committee on Small Business. Recent House rules require quarterly oversight hearings [...]

Most mainstream American whites like to indulge themselves with the comfortable belief that we, as a nation, have long since conquered the ugly scourge of racism. That is why, when minorities complain of the racially-based challenges they continue to face, those complaints are often chalked up to hypersensitivity and dismissed. Sadly for them, the numbers [...]