Posts Tagged ‘ SBA Administrator ’

Lip Service

May 18th, 2009 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Policy Matters

It’s time to keep your word, Mr. President, and elevate SBA Administrator Mills to a position in your Cabinet.

You may not think it matters. Possibly, you think we have forgotten or don’t really care. And some of your advisers may even counsel against making small firms loom too largely in your overall economic outlook.

But Chairwoman Landrieu nailed the situation nicely when she said that there will be no recovery without small businesses. I think it’s high time you did something to indicate that you know that, Mr. President.

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SBA No Longer A Rudderless Ship

Apr 7th, 2009 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Politics & Policy

Last week, the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship held its long-awaited confirmation hearing for Karen Gordon Mills. Within six hours after the hearing was over, the Committee had unanimously approved the nomination. Late in the evening of the next day, the nomination was brought before the full Senate where, without a single chirp [...]

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Senate Panel Reviews FY2010 SBA Budget

Mar 30th, 2009 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Politics & Policy

Whatever changes President Obama might want to bring to the tone or the modus operandi in Washington, at least one thing that remains the same: this is the time of year for budget hearings. And the budget hearing held before the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship last week was, in many ways, simultaneously [...]

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