If you’ve been wondering what the House Small Business Committee has been up to lately, one of their main orders of business has been President’s proposed fiscal 2012 budget for the Small Business Administration. The Committee held its budget hearing last week and, according to opening statements prepared by both Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) [...]
Last week, President Obama sent his eagerly awaited budget proposal for fiscal 2012 to lawmakers on Capitol Hill. As you have probably been hearing since last week, the budget includes some cuts, a few increases, and a few revenue raisers. The resulting proposal is a $3.73 trillion budget that includes $1.1 trillion in budget deficit [...]
The federal budget process as it concerns the U.S. Small Business Administration has taken a slight turn for the unexpected this year. Normally, the relevant House and Senate Committees hold budget hearings to hear what the SBA Administrator has to say in defense of their agency’s budget proposal. That is followed by adoption of the [...]
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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