Tag: Small Business Administration

The six groups made public Monday were part of the economic "bucket" of teams Trump's transition staff had previewed last week. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump names landing teams for 6 more agencies

Sarah Bedford · November 21, 2016 3:08 pm

GOP lawmaker: Unburden small businesses

GOP lawmaker: Unburden small businesses

Daniel Chaitin · May 7, 2016 10:00 am

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., announced at a hearing Wednesday that he is developing new legislation that would ensure that the EPA, and any other big agency, does not avoid the law in measuring the effects of its rules on small businesses. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Energy and Environment

GOP, Dems find common ground in going after EPA

John Siciliano · April 27, 2016 5:18 pm

The late Sen. William Proxmire started the Golden Fleece Award being revived by the Citizens for the Republic. (AP)

Washington Secrets

Report: SBA funded Rolex, Lamborghini, beach clubs, wineries

Paul Bedard · March 18, 2015 7:26 pm

Small Business Administration officials issued nearly $18 million in hurricane disaster loans to businesses without verifying whether they actually had the ability to repay the government. (AP Photo)

Government handed out millions of ill-advised loans after Hurricane Sandy

Sarah Bedford · March 4, 2015 1:04 pm

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Nearly half of all women-owned federal contracts go to companies that aren’t

Sarah Bedford · November 10, 2014 5:40 pm

Chances are you have never heard of the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy. The Environmental Protection Agency would probably prefer it remain that way. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Energy and Environment

EPA ignores its own economic analyses, small business agency says

Sean Higgins · October 16, 2014 9:00 am

In a Oct. 1 letter to EPA administration Gina McCarthy, theÂ Office of AdvocacyÂ stated that the proposed rule would impose costs "directly on small businesses" and that these costs would have a "significant economic impact," despite the EPA's claims to the contrary.Â (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

EPA contradicts itself with Clean Water Act rule, federal agency says

Sean Higgins · October 7, 2014 9:00 am

"Federal agencies received credit towards their small business goals for contract actions awarded to ineligible 8(a) and HUBZone firms," the inspector general of the Small Business Administration found, referring to the programs for race, gender, veterans and impoverished-area set-aside programs.

One-third of ‘disadvantaged’ contracting dollars going to firms that are no longer disadvantaged

Luke Rosiak · September 30, 2014 9:00 am

Federal agencies are inflating the number of economically-disadvantaged small businesses they say they're contracting with, handing out more than $400 million to ineligible firms last year alone. (iStock Photo)

Feds gave $400 million in contracts to ineligible firms

Sarah Bedford · September 28, 2014 9:00 am

Licenses, requirements that individuals gain government permission to work, raise the barriers to entry in an industry, in terms of both time commitment and cost. (iStock Photo)

Manhattan Moment: Professional licenses, not taxes, are the biggest barriers to small business creation

Jared Meyer · July 17, 2014 9:00 pm

Beltway Confidential

Democrat vs. Democrat: Mark Begich mocks Claire McCaskill in unusual personal attack

Ashe Schow · July 3, 2014 5:50 pm