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House Small Business Committee Democrats Call for Greater Small Firm Participation in Sandy Recovery New York Members of the House Committee on Small Business today wrote the Small Business Administration (SBA), calling for small businesses to receive a greater share of Sandy-related federal contracts.    According to recent data, the federal government is not achieving the… Read more »

Velázquez Selected as Small Business Committee Ranking Member Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) was confirmed by the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee as the Ranking Democrat for the House Small Business Committee for the 113th Congress.  Velázquez issued the following statement:            … Read more »

Velázquez on “How Entrepreneurs Can Lead Our Recovery” Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), the Ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Small Business, delivered the following statement today at a hearing titled, “A Job Creation Roadmap: How America’s Entrepreneurs Can Lead Our Economic Recovery”: “Our nation’s 29 million small firms… Read more »

Velázquez Works to Boost Small Business Exports Small businesses in New York and around the country may soon have additional tools to market their products abroad if Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) has her way.  As the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Small Business, Velázquez today introduced H.R. 3976, new legislation aimed at facilitating the… Read more »

Velázquez on SBA Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Small Business commented on the President’s Fiscal Year 2013 Budget for the Small Business Administration: “The overall funding level for SBA in the Fiscal Year 2013 budget demonstrates the Obama Administration’s commitment to small… Read more »

Velázquez on State of the Union Address Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Small Business commented on the President’s State of the Union Address: “While the economy added 3.2 million private sector jobs over the last 22 months, we still have a long way to go to give Americans the opportunity they deserve to… Read more »

Velázquez Calls for Hearings on President’s “Jobs Act” Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Small Business, today wrote the Committee Chairman, Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), calling for swift hearings on the “American Jobs Act”, legislation the President outlined in an address to Congress on Thursday night. The… Read more »

Small Business Health Coverage Becomes More Affordable and Accessible With New Tax Credit Small businesses are finding it easier to secure medical coverage for their employees following implementation of a new tax credit that was enacted through last year’s health insurance reform law.  According to a report released today by Democrats on the House Committee on Small Business,… Read more »

Democrats Call for Fix to Small Business Tax Reporting Rule Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Small Business, called today for repeal of an onerous new tax reporting rule, which was enacted last year as part of health care reform.   By vastly expanding so-called “1099 reporting”, the new rule requires businesses to… Read more »