Panel Gets Tough With SBA Oversight
Apr 26th, 2010 | By Dawn Rivers | Category: PodcastsWhere small business issues are concerned, it seems as if it has taken the second session of the 111th Congress longer than usually to get into gear.
Of course, that might have had something to do with all that snow that got dumped onto the nation’s capital earlier this year. As a resident of the Catskill Mountains, it’s tough for me to sympathize (”The government is a bunch of weather wimps!” chortled my 15-year-old daughter) but I try very hard not to pass judgment.
They live in Virginia. Of course they’re weather wimps.
Be that as it may, it seems as if the House and Senate Small Business Committees are getting it into gear at long last. And not a moment too soon, either; as you’ll see, all the recent economic good news is not translating into either happier consumers spending more money or happier small business owners restocking their shelves.
Recovery is turning out to be slower than slow on Main Street. People in Congress had better start acting like they care about that or they’re going to pay the price in November.
Don’t say you haven’t been warned, guys and gals. It’s still the economy, stupid.
For more information:
- House Committee on Small Business
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- The Conference Board
- National Federation of Independent Business
- U.S. Department of Commerce
- U.S. Department of Labor
