Posts Tagged ‘ politics ’

House Panel Looks for Inefficiencies at SBA

Jun 20th, 2011 | By editor | Category: Current

Happy Monday, fellow travelers.

One of the more interesting things that happens when the House and Senate are divided along partisan lines — you know, where one party holds the House and the other holds the Senate — is the way that you can have hearings on exactly the same topic in the two chambers that sound so very different.

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Tags: federal procurement, microbusiness, policy, politics, SBA oversight
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Health Care Hearing Forgets Small Business

Mar 21st, 2011 | By Dawn Rivers | Category: Podcasts

This has been one of those weeks during which I felt like tearing out my hair in frustration. I don’t understand how our nation’s leaders can manage to so completely ignore the world’s second largest economy — that is, us.

Then again, I just don’t understand their thinking. They spend a lot of time, neurons and money protecting the Big Boys from the things that might hurt them, like regulations and competition from us.

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Tags: economic advisors, health care reform, microbusiness, politics, SBA budget
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