With two simultaneous and related events happening yesterday (i.e. the Health Insurance Marketplace rollout and the federal government shutdown), reporters are looking for small business owners with stories to tell about one or the other or both. If your business is being negatively impacted by the government shutdown, I need your story. How have you […]
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This might be a decisive week for the U.S. Senate that will determine if it can carry on the routine business of the body to approve or not approve Presidential nominations to head agencies and to serve on the courts. According to a story in The Hill this morning, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will
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Momentum is building in the U.S. Senate for change in the filibuster rules. If you remember at the start of the current session Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid refused to allow a vote on significantly changing the filibuster rules. The Senate has become dysfunctional with nothing really getting done due to the abuse of the
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Congratulations to Mark Sanford for his victory Tuesday in South Carolina’s First Congressional District. Sanford’s campaign message was pretty simple. Elect him and he would totally focus on reigning in federal spending in order to cut the budget deficit. Well, in a strange ironic coincidence The Washington Post ran a story on the same day Sanford
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Below is a message from the Alliance for Main Street Fairness that has helped lead the fight in Congress to pass the Marketplace Fairness Act that will allow a state to require online stores to collect sales tax on purchases from that state. The Senate in an overwhelming bipartisan vote yesterday passed the bill. This
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Congratulations to South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. Both are to be commended for their actions last evening.  First, Senator Graham coordinated a dinner meeting between President Barak Obama and some of the South Carolinian’s fellow GOP Senators . The budget and other issues were on the table (excuse the
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Now we count down by the hour to the automatic across the board federal spending cuts and the negative impact on the economy. Small businesses will be particularly hurt when money starts leaving Main Street. But don’t expect any sympathy from the U.S. Chamber for the plight of small business (even though it says that
The Washington PostFebruary 26, 2013 Sequestering common sense By Katrina vanden Heuvel The media is going sequester 24-7. Anyone who hasn’t been paying attention to the across-the-board spending cuts about to hit this Friday is about to have little choice. The brouhaha about the austerity bomb is drowning out any attention to what is actually
With the automatic budget cuts across the board to federal agencies coming three days from now, bills to address the issue are apparently the only real action taking place in Washington. According to The Hill: The Republican plan would maintain the level of spending reductions but give President Obama more flexibility to minimize their impact
Obamacare haters are on the verge of finally having some success in stopping the implementation of the healthcare reform. If the sequester’s automatic budget cuts go into effect this Friday, federal spending on three of the components of teh Affordable Care Act will be impacted. Less money will be available for establishing the health insurance
