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  • What Small Business Owners Are Saying About The Impact Of Sequestration
    Sep 19, 2012 - Ahead of Thursday's hearing, Sequestration: The Threat to Small Businesses, Jobs, and the Industrial Base, American small business owners shared how sequestration will impact their company through the Committee’s interactive website, “Small Biz Open Mic”: ___________________________________________... More
  • What Small Business Owners Are Saying About Regulation
    Jul 24, 2012 - This week, House Republicans are focused on passing legislation that provides regulatory relief for small businesses. Their regulatory cost is 36 percent higher than the costs facing larger companies. Here are some comments from small businesses on how unnecessary federal regulations are holding th... More
  • Small Business Tax Increases on January 1, 2013
    Jul 19, 2012 - How Will Taxmageddon Impact Your Small Business? Without Congressional action, a large number of tax provisions will expire on December 31, 2012. Many of these expiring provisions were enacted in tax legislation in 2001 and 2003 and reduced marginal income tax rates, marriage penalty rates, and the... More
  • Wall Street Journal Editorial:'You Didn't Build That'
    Jul 17, 2012 - Wall Street Journal Editorial: 'You Didn't Build That' On the President's burst of ideological candor... Tuesday, July 17, 2012 The Presidential election has a long way to go, but the line of the year so far is President Obama's on Friday: "You didn't build that." Rarely do politicians so clearly r... More
  • Chairman Graves Talks Small Business Optimism on Fox Business
    Jul 10, 2012 - Today, House Small Business Committee Chairman appeared on the Fox Business Network to discuss today's NFIB Small Business Optimism report, showing the lowest level since October 2011. June’s Index of Small Business Optimism dove three points, falling to 91.4. The drop from 94.4 in May marks the la... More
  • What Small Business Owners Are Saying About The President's Plan To Raise Taxes
    Jul 9, 2012 - President Obama today called for increasing taxes on income above $250,000, which would harm many small businesses. In response to this proposal, American small business owners shared their opinion through the Committee’s interactive website, “Small Biz Open Mic”: __________________________________... More
  • Graves Discusses Questionable Government Contract on CNN’s AC360
    Dec 9, 2011 - Graves: "You certainly can't ignore the political connections between the company and the administration.” WASHINGTON, D.C.— Last night, House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) participated in a special report by CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 on a suspicious $433-million government con... More
  • Small Business Owners To Supercommittee: We Need More Certainty In Tax Policy
    Nov 3, 2011 - Small Business To Supercommittee: We Need More Certainty In Tax Policy Owner: “There are a lot of things we’re not doing because we are not sure what the tax codes are going to be.” WASHINGTON, DC— During today’s Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access hearing entitled... More
  • Graves: "Don’t Forget The “Forgotten 15” Jobs Bills"
    Nov 3, 2011 - Don’t Forget The “Forgotten 15” Jobs Bills By Chairman Sam Graves Thursday, November 3, 2011 While the nation deals with record unemployment and businesses remain uncertain about their futures, the House of Representatives is busy working on more ways to get Americans back on the job. This week, my... More
  • ICYMI - Graves on MSNBC: "There is so much apprehension out there, in terms of small business"
    Jun 27, 2011 - Chairman Sam Graves Discusses Small Business Uncertainty on MSNBC's "Your Business" "There is so much apprehension out there, in terms of small business" CLICK HERE to view On Sunday, Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), Chairman of the Small Business Committee, appeared on MSNBC’s "Your Business" show to discus... More

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