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  • Coffman Subcommittee Holds Hearing on SBA Lending with Banking Partners
    Jun 21, 2012 - House Small Business Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight, and Regulations, under the Chairmanship of Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO), today held a hearing with financial institutions about small business access to capital and the lenders' experience with the SBA’s financial assistance programs. This ... More
  • Committee Questions SBA Administrator Karen Mills on Lending Oversight
    Jun 6, 2012 - The House Small Business Committee, led by Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), today held a hearing to examine the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) management of its capital access programs with a special focus on the ad hoc procedures used to manage those operations. At this hearing, Members of the Co... 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
  • 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
  • Subcommittee Examines Regulatory Environment For Equity Finance
    Apr 19, 2012 - House Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access today held a hearing to examine the current regulatory environment for equity finance and ways to strengthen the ecosystem. Equity financing is a funding method where a business owner sells a percentage of their company in ... More
  • Graves Statement on the Senate-Amended JOBS Act Vote in the House
    Mar 27, 2012 - House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) today issued the following statement on the bipartisan Senate-amended Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012: “This JOBS Act is further proof that both parties can work together to accomplish some good for this nation and our smal... More
  • Graves Holds Hearing on the State of American Small Businesses
    Feb 1, 2012 - Graves Holds Hearing on the State of American Small Businesses “There is no doubt that the lack of certainty in burdensome regulatory requirements and complex tax structures coming from Washington continues to be an impediment for growth and job creation for small business owners.” WASHINGTON, DC— H... More
  • Washington Post: Small Business Committees, Advocates Hesitant to Back Obama’s Restructuring Proposal
    Jan 13, 2012 - Small Business Committees, Advocates Hesitant to Back Obama’s Restructuring Proposal By J.D. Harrison, Washington Post Lawmakers and small business advocacy groups today applauded the President Obama’s decision to add a cabinet seat for the head of the Small Business Administration, but many were h... More
  • Graves Statement on CFPB Recess Appointment
    Jan 4, 2012 - House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) today issued the following statement on President Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray as Director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). “It is unfortunate that the President has bypassed the Senate with this appoin... More
  • Chairman Graves Statement On Bills To Increase Access To Capital, Help Small Businesses Grow
    Nov 3, 2011 - House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) today issued the following statement on today’s House vote on the “Access to Capital for Job Creators Act” (H.R. 2940) and the vote on the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act” (H.R. 2930): “We have learned through our hearings that the inabil... More

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