Yesterday the U.S. Senate voted to start debate on the Small Business Jobs Act with a 61-37 cloture vote. GOP Senators George Voinovich and George Lemieux joined all the Democrats and Independents in the successful vote. Voinovich and Lemieux, about whom I have previously blogged, had voted earlier for the $30 billion Lending Fund for […]
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This blog also ran in The Hill’s Congressional Blog today.—————————————————————————————————————-Today looks to be a great day that’s been a long time coming. Today the Senate finally starts the voting on the Small Business Jobs Act and with the word that Senator Voinovich will support the bill success is at hand. Before the voting began a
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Below is my opinion editorial that ran in today’s State:—————————————————————————————————— I hope Kristy Eppley Rupon’s recent story about the pending demise of three locally owned hardware stores (“Hammered: The Great Recession,” Aug. 23) opened some eyes to a problem that has been developing for some time. The owners of these and other hardware stores interviewed
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I received a call this week from a small business in Anderson, South Carolina. The lady told me that their 30+ year family cabinet-making company had fallen on hard times due to the economy and needed a loan to stay alive. Their attempt to get an SBA loan from the usual banks had failed because
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Leo Hindery, Jr. Recently in a Huffington Post blog, Mr. Leo Hindery, Jr. convincingly argued for our country to pursue two courses for re-energizing our manufacturing economy — to create the jobs we desperately need. Value-Added Tax and Domestic Sourcing He proposes that, “a large part or all corporate income tax” be replaced with a
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(The following opinion editorial by Frank Knapp appeared today in The Hill.) Who is to blame for the state of our national economy is a political football. No one can argue that the recession that started prior to the Obama administration was owned by the former administration. President Bush responded with the Troubled Asset Relief
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette July 15, 2010 Opinion: Main Street wants Wall Street reform Small business needs stable financing to create jobs and serve customers By Frank Knapp Jr. Small business organizations and owners across this country want Wall Street reform, but you wouldn’t know it from the attention the media gives to the U.S. Chamber of
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Dorfman (left) in action This morning I joined Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT) and Margot Dorfman, CEO of the U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce, in a press teleconference call on why passing Wall Street Reform is important to small businesses. You can read my prepared statement below and hear the entire press conference by clicking here.
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The S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce will be launching a new website this month and we want your business listed on our new “BuySC” page.BuySCThe “BuySC” section of our new website will promote the buying of goods and services from South Carolina businesses. The economic benefit of keeping our dollars in our state and
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SC Statehouse Report August 29, 2008 By Frank Knapp Jr. On Aug. 18, an opinion editorial I wrote ran in The State. The title was “The fourth pillar of success” because it addressed the economic development proposal offered by the leadership in the South Carolina Senate and House as well as from other economic development
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