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Forbes: Let the Small Business Administration work

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 12.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Small Business Administration, Contracting, Procurement, Barack Obama, Economy, Michael Forbes, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

The following article is a commentary from Congressman Michael P. Forbes ( 1995-2001), which ran in the Austin American Statesman on December 1, 2008....

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SBA Attempts to Minimize Diversion of Billions In Small Business Contracts to Corporate Giants

Chris Gunn | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Small Business Administration, Small Business, Barack Obama, Economy, Middle Class, Contracting, Procurement, Sandy Baruah, Business News
Chris Gunn

The American Small Business League dropped the following press release this morning. In it the league points to the Small Business Administration's e...

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Obama Votes For Bailout Bill With Language That Could Harm Firms Owned by Women and Minorities

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Bush Administration, Small Business, Bailout, Barack Obama, Federal Government, Far, Economy, Middle Class, Obama, Procurement, Contracting, Federal Aquisition Regulation, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

No Objection From Obama To Bailout Bill Language That Could Harm Firms Owned By Women and Minorities Senator Barack Obama has voted for the latest Se...

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New SBA Head Still Refusing to Release Small Business Contracting Statistics

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 09.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Fortune 500, Bush Administration, Small Business, Fortune 1000, Federal Government, Economy, Middle Class, Sba, Lloyd Chapman, Contracting, Procurement, Sandy Baruah, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Eleven and a half months after the end of the federal government's fiscal year (FY) 2007, new Acting Administrator of the Small Business Administratio...

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New Government Policy Helps Big Businesses Hide in Small Business Database

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Bush Administration, Small Business, Small Business Administration, Abuse, Ccr; Central Contractors Registration, Economy, Procurement, Contracting, Loopholes, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

A new Bush Administration policy will make it easier for large businesses to land government small business contracts by misrepresenting themselves as...

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McCain Small Business Plan Ignores Major Small Business Issues

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Fortune 500, Small Business, Fortuen 1000, Economy, Sba, Asbl, Evergy, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Small Business Administration, Big Oil, Oil, Tax Cuts, Contracting, Procurement, American Small Business League, John McCain, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

On Monday, Senator John McCain's (R - AZ) presidential campaign issued a press release entitled, "John McCain's Plan To Help Small Business." The pla...

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Senate Committee Votes to Give Government Small Business Contracts to Billionaire Venture Capitalists

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Fortune 500, Small Business, Economy, Middle Class, Asbl, Sbir, Venture Capital, Contracting, American Small Business League, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Petaluma, Calif. - Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship passed S. 3362, the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2008. T...

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Blackwater Gets a Billion in Small Business Contracts with Help from SBA Loophole

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Bush Administration, Small Business, Fortune 500, Fortune 1000, Blackwater, Economy, Middle Class, Asbl, Procurement, Contracting, American Small Business, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

The Small Business Administration ruled that Blackwater was a small business -- yet another example of the Bush administration diverting billions to some of the largest corporations in the world.

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SBA Goes After Its Harshest Critic

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Bush Administration, Fortune 500, Small Business, Federal Government, Small Business Administration, Economy, Middle Class, Libel, Slander, Procurement, Contracting, Contracts, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

The American Small Business League (ASBL) has uncovered an extensive campaign by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to impugn the organization's ...

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CNN: "SBA Scandal"

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Small Business Administration, Small Business, Fortune 500, Economy, Cnn, Middle Class, Contracting, Procurement, American Small Business League, Scandal, American Small Business, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Source:  www.cnn.com ...

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Bush to Take Last Crack at Dismantling Programs for Middle Class Firms

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Fortune 500, Bush Administration, Small Business, Fortune 1000, Middle Class Economy, Economy, Middle Class, Procurement, Contracting, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

The Bush administration is gearing up to take one last shot at dismantling federal programs designed to assist middle class firms.

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Big Business Dominates Small Business Contracting Programs

Chris Gunn | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Beltway Bandits, Fortune 500, Small Business, Corporate America, Economy, Procurement, Contracting, Federal Contracting, Corporate Power, American Small Business League, Business News
Chris Gunn

This is a great story, which ran across Associated Press media outlets today regarding the unequal distribution of small business contracts in the Washington D.C. area.

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New SBA Head Could Spell More Trouble for Middle-Class Firms

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Small Business Administration, Steven Preston, Middle Class Economy, Sba Office of Inspector General, Procurement, Contracting, Business, Bush Administration and Corporate Cronyism, Smalll Business, President George Bush, Economy, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Steven Preston, the Bush appointee to head the U.S. Small Business Administration, has no experience or background working with small businesses and hails from a corporate background.

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SBA Struggles to Respond to New York Times Story

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Inspector General, Sba Inspector General, Jovita Carranza, Asbl, Lloyd Chapman, Contracting, Bush Administration and Corporate Cronyism, American Small Business League, Raytheon, Sba, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Re: Letter to the editor published June 19, 2008, entitled, "The Small Business Administration's Comeback" by Jovita Carranza, Acting Administrator, ...

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Heckuva Job, Intelligence Community

John McQuaid | Posted 10.09.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bin Laden, Contracting, Blackwater, Al Qaeda, Intelligence Gathering, Blackwater Iraq, Politics News
John McQuaid

Today's Washington Post adds one more to the long list of Bush administration screwups, this one all the worse because it goes to the heart of our efforts to monitor al Qaeda and bin Laden.

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