Posts Tagged ‘ oversight ’

Senate Focus on Fraud in Oversight Hearing

Jun 20th, 2011 | By dawnriversbaker | Category: Politics & Policy

Last week, the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship held its own oversight hearing to examine fraud, waste, abuse and duplication at the Small Business Administration. Perhaps the largest difference between this hearing and that held before the House Small Business Committee a week earlier was that this hearing focused early on fraud. Because [...]



Panel Gets Tough With SBA Oversight

Apr 26th, 2010 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Politics & Policy

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 [...]