The House Small Business Committee has a new Chair in Representative Sam Graves (R-MO), a move on the part of the House Republican Conference that is not the least surprising since Graves was Ranking Member of that Committee during the last Congress. Graves is not one of the flashier members of Congress — think of [...]
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 [...]
There weren’t any hearings before the House Small Business Committee last week. Instead, Members conducted Committee business, adopting a set of rules and an oversight plan for the 111th Congress. That sort of administrative housekeeping might seem yawn-worthy on first glimpse but the oversight plan is where the Committee indicates what issues will occupy its [...]
The House Committee on Small Business kicked off the 111th Congress with a hearing last week — although, technically, it wasn’t really a hearing because, technically, the membership of the Committee has not yet been finalized — on small business, the current recession and upcoming economic stimulus legislation. A couple of themes emerged from witness [...]
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