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  • Stop The Tax Hike On Small Business
    Aug 1, 2012 - Stop The Tax Hike On Small Business By Chairman Sam Graves Wednesday August 1, 2012 This week, America will have the chance to observe two very different paths in Washington. One road would lead to increased taxes on small businesses, with further dragging down the economy; the other would lead to ... More
  • Regulatory Relief Will Jump-Start Economy
    Jul 25, 2012 - Regulatory Relief Will Jump-Start Economy By Chairman Sam Graves Wednesday July 25, 2012 Earlier this month, we discovered that only 80,000 jobs were created in June, ending the weakest quarter for job creation in the past two years. These anemic jobs numbers demonstrate that the private sector and... More
  • Chairman Graves: Small Businesses Drive Job Creation, Growth
    Jul 12, 2012 - Small Businesses Drive Job Creation, Growth By Chairman Sam Graves Thursday July 12, 2012 Our nation is the mightiest economy on the planet, with great potential for growth. So why are we nearly stagnant? We’ve had weak job growth for months on end, and our lingering high unemployment has been at a... More
  • Chairman Graves: A Small Business Plan All Can Agree On, Right?
    Jul 11, 2012 - A Small Business Plan All Can Agree On, Right? By Chairman Sam Graves Wednesday July 11, 2012 As the nation debates solutions to our stagnant economy and continuing unemployment crisis, more elected leaders now agree that small-business growth plays a crucial role in job creation. An estimated 27 m... More
  • Rep. Coffman: Let’s Reduce Regulations on U.S. Small Businesses
    May 25, 2012 - Let’s Reduce Regulations on U.S. Small Businesses By Rep. Mike Coffman Friday, May 25, 2012 Over the past three years, President Obama has issued several Executive Orders and memos to federal agencies aimed at reducing unnecessary regulatory burdens. Unfortunately, these executive edicts have done ... More
  • Chairman Graves in the Omaha World-Herald: Ease Tax Burden on Small Businesses
    May 21, 2012 - Ease Tax Burden on Small Businesses By Chairman Sam Graves In 1789, Benjamin Franklin famously wrote, “In the world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” As many small-business owners recover from the frustration of completing their tax returns last month, some may now have to... More
  • Chairman Graves in CNBC: What Small Business Is the Next Facebook?
    May 17, 2012 - What Small Business Is the Next Facebook? By Chairman Sam Graves As the financial markets anticipate the initial public offering of social networking megasite Facebook this week, let us take a step back to admire this success story and the entrepreneurial free market system overall. The Facebook IP... More
  • Graves & Tipton in the Washington Examiner: Red Tape Is Strangling America's Energy Supply
    May 8, 2012 - Red Tape Is Strangling America's Energy Supply By Chairmen Sam Graves & Scott Tipton May 8, 2012 As loudly as American families are demanding refuge from economic burdens like high gas prices, small businesses are now chiming in as well. Persistently high energy costs are forcing owners to reduce h... More
  • Chairman Graves in FoxNews.com: Access To Capital Is Still A Major Challenge For Small Business
    Apr 23, 2012 - In Case You Missed It.... Access To Capital Is Still A Major Challenge For Small Business By Chairman Graves Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop. Today’s small business owners are facing a drought of a different type – a dearth of ca... More
  • Chairman Graves in the St. Joseph News-Press: Uncertainty from Washington is Holding Back Small Businesses
    Apr 15, 2012 - Uncertainty from Washington is Holding Back Small Businesses By Chairman Graves What affects job creation throughout Missouri and the United States? A lack of certainty hampering small businesses and preventing them from doing what they do best: expand their company and hire more Americans. As the ... More

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