Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are co-signing an amicus, or friend of the court, brief to be submitted to the federal court in Florida that will hear a constitutional challenge of the federal health care reform law. The brief was initiated by U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and boasts signatures of 30 Senate Republicans. The lawsuit was brought by the attorneys general for several states and the National Federation of Independent Businesses, a small-business trade organization.
Forget Wall Street. The National Federation of Independent Businesses wants people to Occupy Small Businesses.
More small business owners felt jittery, or less optimistic, about the economy in March, according to an industry survey, as businesses grapple with an increase in the price of oil and other raw materials. The National Federation of Independent Businesses released its March Small Business Optimism Index last week, which showed the biggest month-to-month percentage drop since the same time last year -- ending seven months of steady growth.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Small Businesses for Sensible Regulations, a coalition created by the National Federation of Independent Business, grew to 1,000 members strong. Focused on protecting small businesses and American jobs from the impacts of costly federation regulations, coalition chairwoman and former U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln today released the following statement: Small businesses across America are rallying behind the need for sensible regulations. Today we're pleased to report that NFIB's Small Businesses for Sensible Regulations coalition has reached the 1,000 member mark. With federal regulatory requirements being finalized daily in Washington, small businesses are struggling to balance compliance costs and paperwork with their ability...
Friday's gloomy economic forecast from Goldman Sachs solidified a consensus that the economy is just treading water. Goldman's downgrade from 3 percent to 2 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth for this quarter would nearly match last quarter's anemic 1.8 percent growth rate if it bears out. The economy is growing at half the rate President Obama's first budget projected it would this year. But the slowdown is not the whole story because there are, to borrow a phrase, two Americas: big business, which has enjoyed a legitimate recovery, and small business, which hasn't had much to show for it. Companies that finance themselves through the capital markets have been rewarded for being large enough to use stocks and bonds, which have rallied since early 2009. Even leveraged loans, at...
... been advantaged over small banks; big businesses have been favored versus small businesses; and tho...
Coalition unveils five principles needed to restore certainty among critical job-creating bloc WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the heels of new national polling that shows federal regulations are a top problem facing American small businesses, Small Businesses for Sensible Regulations, a project of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), today released an open urging adoption of five steps to improve the federal regulatory process for small businesses. The letter also called for a halt on new regulations until specific improvements are made to ensure transparency, objectivity and more opportunities for input in the regulatory process. Former Senator Blanche Lincoln made the announcement today with more than 50 small busine...
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