In case you hadn’t heard, Washington is girding its loins for the Next Big Fight, even though the Last Big Fight isn’t over yet. Congressional Democrats are evidently already internally bickering over the health care reform versus climate change legislation debate. According to some news reports, one set of Democrats says that energy legislation should [...]

Congress has not yet finished with health care reform, of course, but that hasn’t stopped them from starting to fashion what will no doubt be the next huge policy debate: energy and the environment. Which makes a new report released last week by the National Small Business Association (NSBA) not just interesting and informative, but [...]

It’s only May but I think it’s safe to say that one epithet that no one will be able to apply to the 111th Congress is “Do Nothing.” It’s almost as if the folks at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, having followed the marriage counselor’s advice, suddenly find they can work together again and it [...]

The House Small Business Committee has been chugging along at its usual brisk clip, with current Chair Nydia Velázquez working the Obama Administration’s agenda as faithfully as former Chair Don Manzullo did for the Bush Administration. So, after forays into the small business angle on the state of the economy, health care reform and even, [...]

There was yet another hearing on green technology and small businesses last week before the House Committee on Small Business. The spotlight during the hearing was on how green building technologies might help to resuscitate the ailing construction and manufacturing industries, while simultaneously helping constituents with rising energy costs. Witnesses were uniform in urging Congress [...]

A hearing last week before the Subcommittee on Rural and Urban Entrepreneurship of the House Small Business Committee on cutting edge energy technologies that are currently in the pipeline offered a unexpectedly fascinating glimpse into where our energy future may be heading. The need for a next generation has become crystal clear as rising input [...]