SMALL BUSINESS ACT

Amendments

SBA: authorize loans to small businesses and certain other businesses that suffered substantial economic injury as a result of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (S. 1499), S11731 [13NO]

Bills and resolutions

SBA: authorize loans to small businesses and certain other businesses that suffered substantial economic injury as a result of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (see S. 1499), S10287 [4OC] (see H.R. 2961), H6055 [25SE] (see H.R. 3011), H6259 [3OC] (see H.R. 3073), H6504 [10OC] (see H.R. 3085), H6700 [11OC] (see H.R. 3230), H7851 [6NO] (see H.R. 3308), H8248 [15NO]

———enhance and expand Microloan Program through increased communication between intermediaries (see S. 182), S568 [25JA]

———establish a pilot program to provide regulatory compliance assistance to small businesses (see H.R. 203), H62 [6JA]

Small business: exempt from loan guarantee fees concerns owned and controlled by veterans who have been recently discharged or released from military service (see H.R. 3263), H7959 [8NO]

———provide loans for energy costs (see H.R. 2309), H3617 [26JN]

Letters

American Small Business Emergency Relief and Recovery Act: Anthony R. Wilkinson, National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders, Inc., S12046 [27NO], S13928 [20DE]

———Donald J. Borut, National League of Cities, S12046 [27NO]

———R. Bruce Josten, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, S12046 [27NO]

———Senator Kerry, S13044 [12DE]

———Steven C. Anderson and Lee Culpepper, National Restaurant Association, S12046 [27NO]

Loans to small businesses and certain other businesses that suffered substantial economic injury as a result of terrorist attacks: John Taylor, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, S10291 [4OC]

Lists

Cosponsors of S. 1499, American Small Business Emergency Relief and Recovery Act, S12046 [27NO]

Supporters of S. 1499, American Small Business Emergency Relief and Recovery Act, S13927 [20DE]

Remarks in House

SBA: authorize loans to small businesses and certain other businesses that suffered substantial economic injury as a result of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA, H8523, H8524 [28NO]

———authorize loans to small businesses and certain other businesses that suffered substantial economic injury as a result of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (H.R. 2961), E1737 [25SE]

———authorize loans to small businesses and certain other businesses that suffered substantial economic injury as a result of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (H.R. 3230), E2005 [6NO]

———establish a pilot program to provide regulatory compliance assistance to small businesses (H.R. 203), H6086-H6090 [2OC], E1833 [9OC]

Remarks in Senate

SBA: authorize loans to small businesses and certain other businesses that suffered substantial economic injury as a result of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (S. 1499), S10289-S10293, S10340 [4OC], S10345, S10379 [9OC], S11717 [13NO], S12045-S12047 [27NO], S12821-S12826 [11DE], S13044 [12DE], S13423 [18DE], S13691 [19DE], S13925-S13929 [20DE]

———enhance and expand Microloan Program through increased communication between intermediaries (S. 182), S571 [25JA]

Small business: eliminate certain reporting requirements relative to bundled contracts and expand opportunities for businesses that locate in and hire from economically distressed communities, S9839 [26SE]

———promote involvement of small business concerns and small business joint ventures in certain types of procurement contracts and establish the Small Business Procurement Competition Program, S9838 [26SE]

Reports filed

National Small Business Regulatory Assistance Act: Committee on Small Business (House) (H.R. 203) (H. Rept. 107-210), H5924 [21SE]

Texts of

H.R. 203, National Small Business Regulatory Assistance Act, H6086 [2OC]