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President Obama calls on a partisan minority to stop obstructing and allow legislation that will help small businesses grow and hire to have an up-or-down vo [...]

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Senate Democrats have taken a crucial step towards sending a bill that aims to free up credit for small businesses back to the House for approval later this [...]

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Increases Small Business Administration loan limits to $5 million from $2 million. * To encourage investments in small businesses, the bill would exclude [...]

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"The bill that we passed in the Senate today sets aside $30 billion to help make sure that small bi owners have the capital to grow their businesses and [...]

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?There are many planning opportunities contained in the bill ? ranging from the timing of a sale of small business stock, to planning the acquisitions of [...]

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The small-business bill already has been passed by the House of Representatives. Geithner said the US economy is ?healing and businesses are starting to [...]

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The requirement was wrapped into this year's health care law and was drafted as amendments to a small business bill. The current law requires that business [...]

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If you offer any type of small business consulting services, one of the hardest things that you will encounter is setting fees for those services. Trying to determine what fees to charge for your services can be rather intimidating because of how many different choices you have in billing your clients. [...]

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The Wall Street Journal writes that Obama's small business bill is more politically directed credit, this time for small banks and actually extends idea of government ownership interest to small community banks [...]

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For years, Republicans have been selling themselves as the party of business, using Small Business as the banner from which to launch their tax cuts for huge corporations, think Joe the Plumber, but when push comes to shove as with today�s Senate vote on the small business jobs bill, The Party of No reveals that it is November calculus [...]

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Jeff Merkley and other backers say the bill will encourage business growth and hiring. ?The tax provisions are going to help every single small business,? [...]

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President Obama pushes for the small business bill. Obama wants to cut taxes and increase lending to small businesses, which will will result in the creation of new jobs across the United States. The Senate Democrats are one step closer to a $30 billion small business lending fund, they are also getting help from 2 republicans. [...]

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Senate republicans have done it again. This time they succeeded in blocking a bill that would have increased small business lending by community banks. It hurts small businesses and it keeps them from creating jobs, but that matters not one whit to the republicans in the Senate. They have to make Obama fail, and if they harm their constituents in t [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Senate has passed a bill aimed at helping the nation's small businesses. It would create a $30 billion government fund to help open [...]

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For several days now Senate Republicans have ridiculed their Democratic counterparts for prioritizing campaign finance legislation over a bill that would benefit small businesses - but when leadership brought a revised version of the small business bill to the floor on Thursday morning, they were met with united Republican opposition. [...]

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O'Malley was invited because part of the federal bill -- a government guarantee of private loans to small businesses -- was patterned after a provision used [...]

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Part of the Health Care reform bill was a stealth boondoggle to banks which could crush small businesses. "I am seriously thinking about closing my business" [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Small business could get a break today in the Senate, which is about to pass long-delayed legislation designed to open up credit. The [...]

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Republican senators are acting like spoiled children, in the hopes of eating up valuable pre-recess calendar time, making it impossible for the Senate to do anything else with its limited schedule. [...]

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During a press conference, the former Hewlett Packard Co. executive said the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act has "many, many good aspects." The bill has [...]

29 Jul 2010 President Obama cast his latest economic pitch yesterday as a matter of patriotism, urging the Senate to ditch its partisan mode at least [...]

22 Jul 2010 Hoping to get the Small Business Jobs Act passed before the August recess, Senate Democrats have modified the legislation in an effort to [...]

28 Jul 2010 WASHINGTON — Community banks would be able tap a $30 billion government fund to help them increase lending to small businesses under a bill [...]

The House voted 246-178 to approve a $14 billion bill containing a number of measures providing tax relief to small businesses and extending a bond program [...]

29 Jul 2010 For several days now, Senate Republicans have ridiculed their Democratic counterparts for prioritizing campaign finance legislation over a [...]