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  • Bloomberg BNA: Proposal to Raise Top Tax Rates Ignores Challenges for Passthroughs, Witnesses Say
    Sep 14, 2012 - Bloomberg BNA: Proposal to Raise Top Tax Rates Ignores Challenges for Passthroughs, Witnesses Say September 13, 2012 Sept. 13 (BNA) - Allowing the top tax rates to rise on households earning more than $250,000 may sound appealing to those looking to reduce the nation's deficit without inflicting mor... More
  • Bloomberg BNA : Republicans Question Authority, Justification, Use of Treasury's Small Business Definition
    Sep 6, 2012 - Bloomberg BNA: Republicans Question Authority, Justification, Use of Treasury's Small Business Definition The administration is using questionable legal authority in its attempt to change the definition of small business, a move which could skew the impact of current tax policy discussions, top con... More
  • CQ: GOP Lawmakers Criticize Year-Old Report on Defining ‘Small Business’
    Sep 6, 2012 - CQ: GOP Lawmakers Criticize Year-Old Report on Defining ‘Small Business’ Two GOP lawmakers are angry with Treasury Department officials for a year-old study that offers a narrower definition of “small businesses” than the one often used by Republicans to argue against tax increases on upper-income ... More
  • Politico: Genachowski draws fire on USF reform
    Jul 19, 2012 - Politico: Genachowski draws fire on USF reform By Eliza Krigman FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski drew fire from House lawmakers Wednesday over the agency’s revamp of the Universal Service Fund. Louisiana Republican Jeff Landry told Genachowski that the waiver struggling carriers can apply for to hel... More
  • ModernHealthcare.com: Lawmaker Asks HHS for Health IT Oversight Plan
    Jun 12, 2012 - ModernHealthcare.com: Lawmaker Asks HHS for Health IT Oversight Plan By Joseph Conn Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) is following up with HHS on a November 2011 report from the Institute of Medicine that called for increased public- and private-sector oversight of health information technology. A first-... More
  • Associated Press: Obama's Health Care Aid to Small Firms Disappoints
    May 30, 2012 - Obama's Health Care Aid to Small Firms Disappoints By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar It seemed like a good idea at the time. But a health insurance tax credit for small businesses, part of President Barack Obama's health care law that gets strong support in public opinion polls, has turned out to be a dis... More
  • Bloomberg Gov't: Measure to Dock Federal Executive Bonuses Weakened by U.S. Panel
    May 11, 2012 - Bloomberg Government: Measure to Dock Federal Executive Bonuses Weakened by U.S. Panel By Nick Taborek May 11, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. congressional committee weakened a proposal that would have automatically eliminated the bonuses of top federal executives whose agencies missed targets for award... More
  • Wall Street Journal: CEOs Press Congress on Debt
    May 11, 2012 - Wall Street Journal: CEOs Press Congress on Debt Executives Step Into Deficit Debate Amid Fears of Looming Tax, Spending Measures By Damian Paletta May 11, 2012 WASHINGTON—Top business executives, many of whom sat on their hands during last year's frantic debate about raising the federal debt ceili... More
  • Bloomberg Government: Small Vendor Protests Delay $32 Billion U.S. Drug Contract
    Apr 4, 2012 - Small Vendor Protests Delay $32 Billion U.S. Drug Contract By Kathleen Miller DMS Pharmaceutical Group Inc. says it’s had enough. After the Department of Veterans Affairs excluded small businesses from its largest contract for the third time, the 25-employee Park Ridge, Illinois, drug wholesaler fi... More
  • Small Businesses Short-Changed on U.S. Contracts for 10 Years
    Mar 29, 2012 - Small Businesses Short-Changed on U.S. Contracts for 10 Years The U.S. government has missed its small-business contracting goal every year in the past decade, a sign of the continuing barriers facing companies seeking federal work. The government has a target of awarding 23 percent of eligible pri... More

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