Tomorrow the U.S. House Committee on Small Business holds a hearing featuring the results of a Gallup poll conducted in October last year. The title of the hearing is The Path to Job Creation but the better title might be The Path to Deceiving Congress. The issue is the role government regulations play in […]
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January 26, 2012 Opinion polling released today shows 90 percent of small business owners believe access to credit is a problem and that loans are harder to get now than four years ago; majority support key provisions in president’s American Jobs Act Washington DC, Jan. 26, 2012 – Opinion polling released today shows 90 percent
Small Businesses Reject Role of Money in Politics; View Citizens United Decision as Bad for Business On Jan. 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its Citizens United decision that corporations are free to spend unlimited sums of money in elections. According to opinion polling released by the American Sustainable Business Council, Main Street
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Amercian Sustainable Business Council FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 4, 2011 CONTACT: Amy Kennedy, 703-302-8392; Tanara Bowie, tbowie@tigercomm.us, 703-302-8383 WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), a network of business organizations representing more than 100,000 companies and 300,000 business leaders, applauded President Obama’s appointment of Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Who doesn’t like the concept of accountability? We instinctively understand that people and organizations should be accountable for their behavior. Politicians and government should be accountable for their words and actions. Accountability is as American as mom and apple pie–except when it is just a phony adjective as in the Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA) being
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PoliticoLetter to the EditorNovember 9, 2011 Former Sen. Blanche Lincoln, in her Opinion piece “Why Small Businesses Matter” (POLITICO, Nov. 1), insists that too much regulation is “the roadblock that many small businesses cite as their greatest impediment to growth.” But Lincoln, who is now the chairwoman of an anti-regulation organization created and funded by
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The Washington Post October 30, 2011 By Sherri Pittman Throughout our nation’s history, the federal government has played a critical role in scaling new industries and new technologies. From defense to computers and railroads to aviation, government investment has created thriving industries and good careers for generations of Americans. Today, clean energy technology, including solar, can
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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
As the debt ceiling debate rages on, it appears that Congress and the President are looking at a plan to simply raise the debt ceiling enough to allow the federal government not to default for a short period of time and do some budget cuts along with it. What a tremendous waste of an opportunity
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The country’s biggest banks have taken a lot of criticism about small business lending since the great recession began. Obviously, they don’t agree with their critics. In a recent interview with Robb Mandelbaum of The New York Times, Marc Bernstein, one of the top two small business lending executives at Wells Fargo addressed the issue
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