Posts Tagged ‘ federal budget ’

Advocacy Chief Counsel Nominee Remains in Limbo

Jul 13th, 2010 | By Dawn Rivers | Category: Podcasts

Sometimes, Washington still has the power to surprise me.
Take this debacle with the nomination of Dr. Winslow Sargeant. Personally, given that it is not required by statute for the Chief Counsel of the SBA Office of Advocacy to be a lawyer, Senator Olympia Snowe’s intransigence about it strikes me as being a bit unreasonable … [...]



Panel Gets Tough With SBA Oversight

Apr 26th, 2010 | By Dawn Rivers | Category: Podcasts

Where 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 [...]