If your feet felt cold this morning, it’s because Hell has frozen over. Last evening the U.S. House passed overwhelmingly (407-17) a piece of President Obama’s American Jobs Act. While the Senate Republicans yesterday blocked the transportation part of the jobs bill, House Republicans and Democrats solidly supported changing Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations […]
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Sorry for the lack of personal posts this week. I was in DC Wednesday and Thursday for the American Sustainable Business Council annual meeting. I’ve been honored to serve as Vice Chair of the Board. We had some great meetings the first day hearing from representatives from the EPA and the President’s economic team. That
Every so often someone questions why The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce should weigh in with Congress on national issues. These skeptics think that we’re wasting our efforts or we have some over-inflated ego thinking that Congress cares what small businesses in little old South Carolina think. So it’s very helpful when we
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 Frank Knapp with Danny Herrera, Media Matters  My trip to D.C. this week was very successful. I participated in a Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference panel discussion sponsored by the American Sustainable Business Council on small business and good jobs, met my friends at Media Matters, and talked about the threat of corporate money
When I heard that President Obama was going to address the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and all the news commentators said that it was his effort to get back in the good graces of the business community, I cringed. The U.S. Chamber doesn’t represent the business community. It represents the BIG and multi-national business community.
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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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For everybody in the Charleston area, you need to check out Lowcountry Local First . They are an alliance that educates the public on the importance of supporting the local economy, and encourages businesses and consumers to be environmentally sustainable and socially responsible. Lowcountry Local First is one of over 60 chapters of the Business
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