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Top 8 reasons for House to oppose E-Verify mandate

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Today the message below from the Small Business Chamber will be given to House members before they debate whether to concur or non-concur with the Senate’s mandatory E-Verify amendment to S.20, immigration reform.  A non-concur vote would send the bill to a conference committee to work out the difference between the House and Senate versions.——————————————————————————————————- Top 8 Reasons […]

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Don’t Make Small Business do the State’s Work

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ACTION ALERT!!! Don’t Make Small Business do the State’s Work This week the S.C. House will make an extremely important decision for every small business in the state.  Without any public hearings or thorough discussion of alternative solutions, the Senate voted to mandate that our small businesses not be allowed to use a driver’s license

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Senate throws small businesses under the bus….again

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Tuesday evening the South Carolina Senate, after considerable debate, voted to amend an immigration reform bill to require all businesses, small and big, to only use E-Verify when hiring an employee. This would mean that no longer can a business simply use a driver’s license or other state approved document to indicate a person’s immigration

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EPA authority support

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Yesterday The South Carolina Small Business Chamber signed on to the below statement.  For more background on our postion on this issue, click here.—————————————————————————————————— Senate Amendments to SBIR-STTR Blocking EPA’s Authority: Political Maneuvers that Will Do Nothing for Small Businesses Washington, DC – March 16, 2011 — We, the undersigned organizations representing a diverse set

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Goliath goes down

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Back in November the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce sent an Action Alert to our members urging them contact the S.C. Workers’ Compensation Commission to express their opposition to an insurance industry proposal unfair to small businesses. The industry wanted to shorten the time companies had to wait to cancel a workers’ comp

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Small Business Chamber December Newsletter

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Tell Congress to stop new 1099 requirement The new health care law, the Affordable Care Act, has tremendous benefits for small businesses, particularly the tax credits and health insurance exchanges. But the 1099 provision, which has nothing to do with healthcare reform and was included only as a revenue-raising measure, works against them. It would

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More than just an election this week

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I was a little pre-occupied this week so I’m late with this blog.A little thing like an election sucked some energy out of me as it did most folks. But I was involved with some positive activities. My declaration expressing support for the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gas was filed along with

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