SMALL BUSINESS

Addresses

State of the Union Message (1946): Harry S Truman, S4052 [20MY]

Amendments

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental for disaster relief, summer youth jobs programs, and SBA loans program, and rescind amounts from certain accounts (H.R. 4899), S4112, S4149, S4150, S4152, S4153, S4154, S4155, S4156 [24MY], S4172, S4181, S4182, S4185, S4190, S4193, S4194, S4195, S4200, S4201, S4202, S4224, S4225, S4226, S4228, S4229, S4230, S4231, S4232, S4233, S4237, S4238 [25MY], S4405, S4406, S4410, S4416, S4419, S4421, S4426, S4448, S4449, S4450, S4451, S4452, S4453, S4457, S4458, S4459, S4460, S4461, S4462, S4463, S4464, S4465, S4466, S4467, S4468, S4469 [26MY], S4479, S4502, S4503, S4504, S4505, S4506, S4556, S4557, S4559 [27MY], H5356, H5359, H5369, H5371, H5383 [1JY], H6052 [27JY]

Bankruptcy: make technical corrections to U.S. Code provisions (H.R. 6198), S8144, S8205 [19NO], H8535 [16DE]

Dept. of the Treasury: create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to make capital investments in eligible institutions to increase availability of credit for small businesses (H.R. 5297), S5495 [28JN], S5515, S5516, S5546, S5570, S5594, S5618, S5619, S5620, S5621, S5623, S5624, S5625, S5628 [29JN], S5705, S5706, S5707, S5708, S5709, S5710, S5711, S5712, S5713, S5714, S5715 [30JN], S5749, S5750 [12JY], S5793, S5794, S5795 [13JY], S5860, S5861, S5863, S5864, S5866 [14JY], S5973, S5974, S5975 [15JY], S5997, S5998 [19JY], S6027, S6028, S6029, S6031 [20JY], S6073, S6088, S6089, S6110, S6116 [21JY], S6222, S6223, S6224 [22JY], S6247, S6261 [26JY], S6293, S6294, S6308, S6337, S6338, S6339, S6340 [27JY], S6444, S6445, S6446, S6447, S6448, S6449, S6450, S6451, S6452, S6453, S6454 [28JY], S6528, S6529 [29JY], S6934, S6961, S6962, S6972, S6973, S6974 [5AU], S7044, S7045, S7046, S7047, S7048 [13SE], S7055 [14SE], S7139 [15SE], H4520, H4529, H4531, H4533, H4534, H4535, H4537, H4538, H4539, H4540, H4541 [16JN], H4611, H4612 [17JN], H6905 [23SE]

———create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to make capital investments in eligible institutions to increase availability of credit for small businesses (H.R. 5297), consideration (H. Res. 1448), H4608 [17JN]

———create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to make capital investments in eligible institutions to increase credit for small businesses (H.R. 5297), consideration of Senate amendment (H. Res. 1640), H6891 [23SE]

Domestic policy: temporarily extend certain programs (H.R. 4691), S967 [2MR]

Economy: making appropriations for jobs creation and retention (H.R. 2847), S559, S560, S575, S586, S587 [11FE], S626, S628, S629, S634, S640 [22FE], S712 [23FE], S1476, S1479, S1480 [11MR], S1531, S1532 [15MR], H1125 [4MR]

SBA: enhance the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (H.R. 2965), S10386, S10387, S10415 [16DE], S10521 [17DE], H8390, H8396 [15DE]

Taxation: provide incentives for small business job creation, extend Build America Bonds program, and provide other infrastructure job creation tax incentives (H.R. 4849), S10308 [15DE]

———provide incentives for small business job creation, extend Build America Bonds program, and provide other infrastructure job creation tax incentives (H.R. 4849), consideration (H. Res. 1205), H2226 [23MR]

———retain estate tax with an immediate exemption increase and repeal new carryover basis rules (H.R. 4154), S803 [25FE]

Articles and editorials

Charles Wheeler—He Was a Leader in Business, Politics and Education in Area, S8709 [9DE]

Congress Must Renew Bush's Tax Breaks, E1872 [29SE]

Fact Check—Tax Cut Math Doesn't Add Up for Some, S6870 [5AU]

50 Years of Service—``Unique'' Paul's Discount—A Pulaski Gem, S5483 [28JN]

Four Things That Could Help Companies Start Hiring Again, S6848 [5AU]

Harry Hoe—An Enduring Leader, S5101 [17JN]

Healthy Living Owner Katy Lesser Named Vermont SBA Person of the Year, S4439 [26MY]

High School Students Take on Building Project, S986 [3MR]

Jake Burton—Chairman of the (Snow)Board, S1355 [10MR]

Jobs in the Cards?, S6845 [5AU]

Loan Squeeze Thwarts Small-Business Revival, E1775 [29SE]

Moody's Experts Predict Texas Cities Will Lead the Recovery, H2329 [25MR]

No-Cost Stimulus, S3863 [18MY]

Number of Businesses Growing in Area Towns—Officials—Younger People Moving In, H2295 [24MR]

ObamaCare's Worst Tax Hike, S1960 [24MR]

Prevent a Double-Dip Recession, H3181 [5MY]

SBA Program Proves a Hit, but Now It Is in Limbo, S6846 [5AU]

Small Business Bill Appears To Be Stuck in Senate, S6847 [5AU]

Small Business Credit Crunch, S3959 [19MY]

Small Business Lending Fund Will Help Recovery Jobs,, S6846 [5AU]

Small Business Slow To Embrace Health Tax Credits, Brokers Say, S6869 [5AU]

Spin Meter—Program Risks $30B To Save Weak Banks, S6580 [2AU]

State Tells Employees Health Insurance Will Rocket, S6155 [22JY]

States and the Stimulus—How a Supposed Boon Has Become a Fiscal Burden, S9 [20JA]

`Temporary' Tax Code Puts Nation in a Lasting Bind, S9009 [14DE]

1099 Insurrection—The White House Fights an Effort To Ease a Burden on Small Businesses, S7060 [14SE]

Unemployment Claims Drop By 14,000—Most of the Drop Pegged to Adjustments in How Labor Department Calculates Claims, H2329 [25MR]

Bills and resolutions

American Craft Beer Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 1297), H2843 [22AP]

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: rescind all stimulus funds that remain unobligated (see H.R. 6403), H7453 [15NO]

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental for disaster relief, summer youth jobs programs, and SBA loans program, and rescind amounts from certain accounts (see H.R. 4899), H1890 (see H.R. 4899), H2173 [21MR]

———making emergency supplemental for disaster relief, summer youth jobs programs, and SBA loans program, and rescind amounts from certain accounts (H.R. 4899), consideration (see H. Res. 1204), H2215 [22MR]

Bankruptcy: address reorganization of small businesses (see S. 3675), S6520 [29JY]

———make technical corrections to U.S. Code provisions (see H.R. 6198), H6988 [23SE]

Business and industry: provide loan guarantees and interest rate subsidies for successful companies to establish and implement long-term U.S. growth plans (see H.R. 5445), H4022 (see H.R. 5445), H4083 [27MY]

Construction industries: include certain construction and land development loans in the definition of small business lending (see H.R. 6191), H6988 [23SE]

Contracts: ensure certain Federal contracts are set aside for small businesses and enhance services to disadvantaged small businesses (see H.R. 4929), H2318 [24MR]

———ensure that small businesses have their fair share of Federal procurement opportunities (see H.R. 4496), H326 [21JA]

———reaffirm Congress' intent that Federal contracting officers have discretion to choose among any small business development and contracting programs when awarding contracts (see S. 3190), S2162 [26MR]

———require contractors to notify small business concerns that have been included as subcontractors on Federal contract offers (see S. 4025), S9022 [14DE]

Corporations: increase threshold amount for information reporting requirements for certain payments to corporations (see S. 3777, 3783), S7089 [14SE]

———repeal expansion of information reporting requirements for certain payments to corporations (see S. 3578), S5849 [14JY] (see S. 3946), S7899 [15NO] (see H.R. 5141), H2876 [26AP]

Crime: prevent fraud in transactions involving certain small business concerns (see H.R. 6370), H7393 [29SE]

Dept. of Agriculture: improve the business and industry direct and guaranteed loan program (see S. 3085), S1229 [5MR]

Dept. of Commerce: establish a technology deployment and early-stage business investment grant program (see H.R. 6120), H6681 [14SE]

———establish an early-stage business investment and incubation grant program (see H.R. 5411), H3870 [26MY]

———establish Minority Business Development Program (see S. 4026), S9022 [14DE]

———expand Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program and Technology Innovation Program to include projects with potential for commercial exploitation in foreign markets (see S. 3084), S1229 [5MR]

———expand Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program for projects to create jobs, increase energy efficiency, and promote technology transfer (see S. 3340), S3536 [11MY]

———provide cost-sharing assistance to improve access to foreign markets for energy efficiency and renewable energy products exported by small- and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. (see S. 3395), S4082 [20MY]

———reauthorize Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program (see S. 3523), S5319 [23JN]

———reduce matching requirement for Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program participants (see S. 3519), S5268 [22JN]

Dept. of Defense: provide authority to restrict competition to businesses within States that fund projects at military installations (see H.R. 5755), H5675 [15JY]

Dept. of Energy: establish a Supply Star program to support businesses in promoting supply chain energy efficiency (see S. 3396), S4143 [24MY]

Dept. of HUD: amend Community Development Block Grant Program service cap (see S. 4017), S8641 [8DE]

———make a certification when making purchases under the Small Business Lending Fund Program (see H.R. 5551), H4635 [17JN]

Domestic policy: provide a fully offset temporary extension of certain programs so as not to increase the deficit (see S. 3153), S1873 [23MR] (see S. 3173), S2115 [25MR]

———temporarily extend certain programs (see S. 3420, 3421), S4212 [25MY] (see H.R. 4691), H931 [25FE] (see H.R. 5453), H4213 [28MY]

Economic Development Administration: establish a grant program for organizations to assist individuals and businesses affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to file claims for damages (see S. 3337), S3535 [11MY]

Economy: create jobs through tax relief for small businesses, make unemployment benefits tax free, use repaid Troubled Asset Relief Program funds for debt reduction, and reduce frivolous lawsuits (see H.R. 4513), H386 [26JA]

———making appropriations for jobs creation and retention (H.R. 2847), consideration of Senate amendment (see H. Res. 1137), H1167 [4MR]

———provide tax relief, ease regulatory burden, and provide expanded access to credit (see H.R. 5554), H4635 [17JN]

———reform health care, Social Security, tax code for individuals and small businesses, and the budget process (see H.R. 4529), H421 [27JA]

Employment: create jobs by reducing tax and regulatory burdens on businesses, promoting foreign trade, and repealing certain health care reform laws (see H.R. 6367), H7393 [29SE]

———help to create new jobs and drive economic recovery (see S. 3103), S1359 [10MR]

EPA: temporarily prohibit from issuing regulations that result in increased costs for small businesses (see H.R. 6333), H7392 [29SE]

Fair Credit Reporting Act: provide an exclusion from Red Flag Guidelines for certain small businesses (see S. 3416), S4211 [25MY]

Federal agencies and departments: permit agencies to count certain contracts toward certain small business contracting goals (see H.R. 6226), H7153 (see H.R. 6226), H7211 [28SE]

Federal aid programs: establish small metal-working business financial assistance program (see H.R. 5991), H6567 [30JY]

———improve lending and investment programs (see H.R. 6219), H7153 (see H.R. 6219), H7211 [28SE]

Federal Water Pollution Control Act: require restitution for victims of criminal violations (see S. 3466), S4744 [9JN]

FEMA: establish a disaster recovery assistance program for businesses (see H.R. 5242), H3272 [6MY]

Financial institutions: establish a commercial real estate credit guarantee program to empower community banks and other lenders to make loans (see H.R. 5816), H5983 [22JY]

———extend loan enhancements (see S. 3604), S5964 [15JY]

———provide amortization authority in certain situations for capital calculation under the Financial Institutions Examination Council Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income (see H.R. 5249), H3273 [6MY]

Foreign trade: improve support, training, education, and compliance assistance regarding export licensing requirements provided to small and medium-sized businesses (see H.R. 6320), H7392 [29SE]

GAO: conduct a study on the performance of the Federal Government in meeting certain small business procurement contracting goals (see H.R. 4660), H754 [23FE]

Global Entrepreneurship Week: designate (see S. Res. 681), S7968 [17NO]

Government regulations: address reporting requirement burden (see H.R. 6213), H6989 [23SE]

———clarify regulations relative to misrepresentation through the use of pass-through business (see H.R. 4420), H40 [12JA]

———ensure that the creation of jobs by small businesses is considered during the Federal legislative and rulemaking process (see S. 3024), S698 [23FE]

Gulf of Mexico: create system to resolve claims of economic injury caused by the Deepwater Horizon incident and renegotiate lease relative to incident to increase existing liability limits (see S. 3410), S4211 [25MY] (see S. 3461), S4621 [7JN]

———create system to resolve claims of economic injury caused by the Deepwater Horizon incident, investigate measures to prevent similar incidents, and improve the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund and oil spill research (see S. 3542), S5489 [28JN]

———require a study of the effect of temporary moratorium on new deepwater drilling on small businesses (see S. 3545), S5538 [29JN]

———require BP P.L.C., to establish a gulf coast recovery fund to cover cleanup efforts and damage claims associated with Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident (see H.R. 5520), H4424 [14JN]

———require BP P.L.C., to establish a recovery fund focused on travel and tourism to be administered by the Gulf Coast Claims Facility in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (see H. Con. Res. 309), H6405 (see H. Con. Res. 309), H6457 [29JY]

Haiti: promote strengthening of private sector (see S. 3202), S2295 [14AP]

Health: national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (H.R. 4038), pass (see H.R. 5424), H4021 (see H.R. 5424), H4082 [27MY]

———repeal mandate that employers provide health insurance for employees (see S. 3501), S5112 [17JN]

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act: repeal tax on unearned investment income Medicare contribution (see S. 3712), S6883 [5AU]

Immigration: establish employment-based immigrant visa for alien entrepreneurs who have received significant capital from investors to establish business in the U.S. (see S. 3029), S742 [24FE] (see H.R. 5193), H3078 [29AP]

Intellectual property: anniversary of the Bayh-Dole Act on retention of intellectual property arising from federally funded research (see H. Con. Res. 328), H7453 [15NO]

Investments: increase funding for individual development accounts through funds received by eliminating the domestic production tax deduction for coal and other hard mineral fossil fuels (see H.R. 6067), H6570 [30JY]

IRS: permit issuance of prospective guidance clarifying employment status of individuals for purposes of employment taxes and to prevent retroactive assessments relative to such clarifications (see S. 3786), S7134 [15SE] (see H.R. 6128), H6762 [15SE]

Manufacturing: support and strengthen (see H.R. 6055), H6570 [30JY]

Medicare: exempt blood glucose self-testing equipment and supplies furnished by small retail community pharmacies from competitive acquisition programs (see H.R. 5235), H3272 [6MY]

National Family Business Week: designate (see H. Res. 1586), H6571 [30JY]

National Small Business Week: observance (see S. Res. 540), S4442 [26MY]

Native American Economic Advisory Council: establish (see S. 3331), S3407 [7MY] (see H.R. 5452), H4022 (see H.R. 5452), H4084 [27MY]

Native Americans: facilitate business and agricultural leasing of Navajo Nation lands (see H.R. 6210), H6989 [23SE]

———improve access to capital, bonding authority, and job training and promote native community development financial institutions and small business opportunities (see S. 3471), S4745 [9JN]

Oil Pollution Act: authorize advances from Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (see S. 3473), S4745 [9JN] (see H.R. 5499), H4386 [10JN]

———permit Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund use by Federal agencies to research, prevent, and respond to oil spills, for environmental studies, and grants for affected communities (see S. 3580), S5849 [14JY]

———require polluters to pay the full cost of oil spills (see S. 3305), S3091 [4MY] (see S. 3472), S4745 [9JN] (see H.R. 5214), H3201 [5MY]

OMB: provide a list of programs with unobligated stimulus funds and make recommendations to redirect such funds to assist displaced workers or spur job creation (see S. 2981), S440 [2FE]

OSHA: authorize and expand the Voluntary Protection Programs to include more small businesses (see S. 3257), S2642 [26AP] (see H.R. 6536), H8598 [16DE]

Outer Continental Shelf: improve safety and preparedness surrounding offshore energy production and respond to the Deepwater Horizon blowout, explosion, and oil spill (see S. 3763), S6884 [5AU]

Railroads: require a certain percentage of high-speed rail project funds be expended through small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals (see H.R. 5010), H2503 [13AP]

SBA: eliminate preferences and special rules for Alaska Native Corporations relative to Government contracting (see S. 3959), S7968 [17NO] (see H.R. 6447), H7614 [18NO]

———enhance the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (H.R. 2965), consideration of Senate amendment (see H. Res. 1764), H8519 [15DE]

———establish a Native American entrepreneurial development program (see S. 3534), S5439 [24JN] (see H.R. 6233), H7154 (see H.R. 6233), H7211 [28SE]

———establish a small business intermediary lending pilot program (see H.R. 5332), H3540 [18MY]

———establish a temporary Working Capital Express loan guarantee program for small business concerns (see S. 3432), S4528 [27MY]

———establish loan guarantee program to assist small business concerns that manufacture clean energy technologies (see H.R. 6212), H6989 [23SE]

———establish the Minority Entrepreneurship and Business Development Program (see H.R. 4422), H40 [12JA]

———establish Veterans' Business Center program (see S. 3394), S4082 [20MY]

———expand export promotion activities relative to small- and medium-sized manufacturers (see H.R. 5797), H5818 [20JY]

———extend and improve the Dealer Floor Plan Pilot Initiative (see H.R. 5734), H5616 [14JY]

———improve business development program (see H.R. 4818), H1323 [10MR]

———improve certain programs to better assist small business customers in accessing broadband technology (see S. 3506), S5112 [17JN]

———improve programs for socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and establish a Small Business Surety Bond Pilot Program (see S. 3458), S4621 [7JN]

———improve the Express Loan Program (see H.R. 4598), H601 [4FE]

———improve the Office of International Trade to expand small business exporting (see H.R. 5832), H5984 [22JY]

———make grants to assist small business concerns located in areas affected by a major disaster and high unemployment (see H.R. 5007), H2503 [13AP]

———make permanent the increase in surety bond guarantee limits (see S. 3836), S7420 [23SE]

———permit use of previously appropriated funds to extend Small Business Loan Guarantee Program (see H.R. 4938), H2456 [25MR]

———provide for refinancing and consolidation of disaster loans made to people directly affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident (see H.R. 5787), H5818 [20JY]

———reauthorize and improve the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (see S. 4053), S11037 [22DE]

———reauthorize the National Small Business Tree Planting Program (see S. 3279), S2802 [29AP] (see H.R. 4509), H386 [26JA]

———reform and improve the HUBZone program for small business concerns (see S. 3020), S698 [23FE]

———reinstate increase in surety bond guarantee limits (see S. 3835), S7420 [23SE]

———remove limit on anticipated award price for contracts awarded under the procurement program for women-owned small business concerns (see S. 3399), S4143 [24MY]

———require a study and report by the Office of Advocacy on the effects of proposed changes in patent law (see S. 3089), S1311 [9MR]

———require small business training for Federal contracting officers (see S. 3444), S4529 [27MY]

———temporarily designate as a HUBZone counties that are most affected by a recession (see S. 3563), S5699 [30JN] (see H.R. 6251), H7389 [29SE]

———waive interest for certain loans relative to damage caused by certain recent hurricanes (see S. 2986), S481 [4FE] (see H.R. 4609), H602 [4FE]

———waive non-Federal share requirement under certain programs (see S. 3165), S2115 [25MR]

Ships and vessels: provide for the replacement or rebuilding of certain fishing vessels (see S. 4014), S8599 [7DE]

Small Business Act: extend programs (see S. 3253), S2587 [22AP] (see S. 3839), S7446 [24SE] (see H.R. 4508), H386 [26JA]

———improve contracting provisions (see S. 2989), S481 [4FE]

———reauthorize (see H.R. 5849), H6042 [26JY]

———waive temporarily certain matching amount requirements relative to small business development centers (see H.R. 4932), H2318 [24MR]

Small Business Development Center network: anniversary (see S. Res. 638), S7352 [22SE]

Small Business Investment Act: extend programs (see S. 3253), S2587 [22AP] (see S. 3839), S7446 [24SE] (see H.R. 4508), H386 [26JA]

———increase maximum amount for loans to State and local development companies and provide temporary authority for debt refinancing of commercial real estate (see H.R. 5412), H3870 [26MY]

———reauthorize (see H.R. 5849), H6042 [26JY]

State Small Business Credit Initiative: establish (see H.R. 5302), H3482 [13MY]

Taxation: allow a business credit for investments in rural microbusinesses (see H.R. 5990), H6567 [30JY]

———allow a business credit for small business loans (see H.R. 5277), H3310 [11MY]

———allow a credit against income tax for qualified equity investments in certain small businesses (see H.R. 5864), H6042 [26JY]

———allow a credit against tax for certain fruit and vegetable farmers (see H.R. 6164), H6879 [22SE]

———allow a credit for equity investments in high technology and biotechnology small business concerns developing innovative technologies that stimulate private sector job growth (see H.R. 5767), H5675 [15JY]

———allow a deduction for certain small business income (see H.R. 6168), H6879 [22SE]

———allow an income tax credit for equity investments in high technology small businesses (see H.R. 4769), H1168 [4MR]

———allow companies to utilize existing alternative minimum tax credits to create and maintain U.S. jobs (see S. 3014), S620 [22FE] (see H.R. 4850), H1517 [16MR]

———allow credits for establishment of franchises with veterans (see S. 3818), S7352 [22SE]

———allow employers a refundable credit for increasing employment (see H.R. 4437), H138 [13JA] (see H.R. 4565), H471 [2FE] (see H.R. 4730), H1026 [2MR]

———allow expensing of certain real property (see S. 3083), S1229 [5MR]

———allow loans from certain retirement plans for the payment of certain small business expenses (see H.R. 5978), H6405 (see H.R. 5978), H6456 [29JY]

———allow the private sector to create robust levels of economic growth (see H.R. 5029), H2639 [15AP]

———allow the work opportunity credit to small businesses which hire members of the Ready Reserve or National Guard (see S. 3556), S5699 [30JN] (see H.R. 4859), H1518 [16MR]

———encourage creation and growth of small business and reduce the cost of complying with tax requirements (see H.R. 4779), H1168 [4MR]

———encourage investment in certain industries by providing an exclusion from tax on certain gains (see H.R. 4877), H1656 [18MR]

———ensure oil production excise tax will continue to pay for cleanup of, and damages incurred by current oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and any future spills (see H. Res. 1374), H3657 [19MY]

———establish a Small Business Startup Savings Account (see S. 2985), S481 [4FE]

———establish a tax, regulatory, and legal structure that encourages small businesses to expand and innovate (see H.R. 5109), H2842 [22AP]

———establish temporary work opportunity credit to encourage small businesses to hire certain unemployed individuals (see H.R. 4620), H609 [9FE]

———exclude from gross income compensation provided by BP P.L.C., for victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident (see H.R. 5598), H4871 [24JN]

———exclude income attributable to certain empowerment zone real property from gross income (see H.R. 6041), H6569 [30JY]

———expand the tip tax credit to employers of cosmetologists and promote tax compliance in the cosmetology sector (see S. 3430), S4442 [26MY]

———express that the value-added tax is a massive tax increase that will result in hardships for families and job-creating small business and will further push back America's economic recovery (see H. Res. 1317), H3078 [29AP]

———extend and modify empowerment zone benefits, award loan funds to improve energy efficiency and clean energy technology, and provide a credit for investments in value-added agriculture (see S. 3787), S7134 [15SE]

———increase deductions for start-up expenditures and small business meal and entertainment expenses, provide a standard deduction for business use of a home, and extend bonus depreciation (see H.R. 4637), H647 [22FE]

———make certain middle class tax relief permanent, increase limits on small business expensing of certain depreciable assets, and extend alternative minimum tax relief (see H.R. 6467), H7854 [1DE]

———make certain tax relief permanent and permanently repeal estate and gift taxes (see H.R. 6522), H8519 [15DE] (see H.R. 6538), H8598 [16DE]

———permanently extend Bush administration tax cuts and provide permanent alternative minimum tax and estate tax relief (see S. 3773), S7034 [13SE] (see S. 3975), S8063 [18NO] (see H.R. 6415), H7548 [17NO]

———permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, restaurant property, and retail improvement property (see S. 3510), S5112 [17JN]

———prevent the imposition of new burdensome or unfair tax collecting requirements on small online businesses (see H. Res. 1570), H6405 (see H. Res. 1570), H6457 [29JY]

———provide a credit for investment in new or expanding small businesses (see H.R. 5691), H5502 [1JY]

———provide a permanent exclusion of all gain on certain small business stock (see H.R. 4663), H754 [23FE]

———provide a refundable credit for small business job growth (see S. 2967), S340 [28JA]

———provide a temporary payroll increase tax credit for certain employers (see S. 2973), S392 [1FE] (see H.R. 4585), H554 [3FE]

———provide incentives for small business job creation (see H.R. 5486), H4330 [9JN]

———provide incentives for small business job creation, extend Build America Bonds program, and provide other infrastructure job creation tax incentives (see H.R. 4849), H1517 [16MR]

———provide incentives for small business job creation (H.R. 5486), consideration (see H. Res. 1436), H4424 [14JN]

———provide relief for small businesses (see H.R. 4841), H1396 [12MR]

———provide tax benefits for certain areas affected by discharge of oil due to Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and sinking in Gulf of Mexico (see H.R. 5699), H5502 [1JY]

———provide tax relief for persons affected by discharge of oil due to Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and sinking in Gulf of Mexico (see S. 3934), S7788 [29SE]

———reduce budget deficit and the burden on law-abiding taxpayers through stricter enforcement against deliquent taxpayers (see S. 3795), S7175 [16SE]

———reduce employer portion of payroll taxes for employers who expand payroll in high unemployment areas and make permanent research and development credit, bonus depreciation, and increased expensing limitations (see H.R. 4965), H2457 [25MR]

———reduce excise tax rate on beer produced domestically by certain small producers (see S. 3339), S3535 [11MY]

———repeal expansion of information reporting requirements for certain payments to corporations or for property and eliminate loopholes that encourage companies to move operations offshore (see H.R. 5982), H6567 [30JY]

———require employers to sign a statement on tax returns that they do not knowingly employ individuals not authorized to be employed in the U.S. (see H.R. 5306), H3482 [13MY]

———require polluters to pay the full cost of oil spills (see S. 3306), S3091 [4MY]

———waive penalty on early distributions from individual retirement plans for small business investments (see H.R. 5318), H3486 [14MY]

Technology: express importance of biotechnology firms meeting small business standards to the U.S., its people, and its economy (see H. Res. 1179), H1396 [12MR]

Trucking industry: increase effectiveness of Federal oversight of motor carriers by reforming regulations relative to licensed brokers (see S. 3483), S4885 [14JN]

Veterans: assist small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans (see H.R. 5627), H4974 (see H.R. 5627), H5203 [29JN]

———clarify requirements for verifying a small business concern owned and controlled by a veteran (see H.R. 5274), H3310 [11MY]

Cloture motions

———create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to make capital investments in eligible institutions to increase availability of credit for small businesses (H.R. 5297), motion to proceed, S5430 [24JN], S5514 [29JN]

Domestic policy: provide a fully offset temporary extension of certain programs so as not to increase the deficit (S. 3153), motion to proceed, S2091 [25MR]

Economy: making appropriations for jobs creation and retention (H.R. 2847), S559 [11FE]

———making appropriations for jobs creation and retention (H.R. 2847), House amendment, S610 [22FE], S1479 [11MR], S1501 [15MR]

SBA: enhance the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (H.R. 2965), House amendment, S10386 [16DE], S10666 [18DE]

E-mails

Jobs Now program funding: Alyssa Avila, H2221 [23MR]

Small Business Jobs Act: Bryan Gipson, S6724 [4AU]

———Rick Sanborn, S7151 [16SE]

Letters

Automobile Dealer Economic Rights Restoration Act: Dave Croft, H3062 [29AP]

Commerical real estate market instability: Representatives Kanjorski and Calvert, H3180 [5MY]

Delay EPA fines on certain contractors who have been unable to complete training and obtain certification for lead-based paint removal: Jeremy Stine, Window & Door Manufacturers Association, S4411 [26MY]

———Michael P. O'Brien, National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association, S4411 [26MY]

———Stephen A. Owens, EPA, S4496 [27MY]

———Susan Eckerly, National Federation of Independent Business, S4410 [26MY]

———several housing and health organizations, S4495 [27MY]

Environmental Crimes Enforcement Act: Senator Coburn, S6022 [20JY]

Increase availability of credit for small businesses: Small Business Access to Credit Coalition, S5988 [19JY]

Middle Class Tax Relief Act: Jay Timmons, National Association of Manufacturers, H7883 [2DE]

———several business organizations, H7884 [2DE]

Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund advances for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Peter R. Orszag, OMB, H4338, H4342 [10JN]

Permanently extend Bush administration tax cuts: several taxpayers, S8533 [4DE]

Permanently extend estate tax relief: Landi McFarland, S7464 [27SE]

Permit community banks to remain under FRS supervision: Camden R. Fine, Independent Community Bankers of America (organization), S3522 [11MY]

———R. Bruce Josten, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, S3522 [11MY]

Promulgate regulations regarding debit and credit card interchange transaction fees: Americans for Financial Reform (organization), S3698 [13MY]

———National Trade Associations, S3698 [13MY]

Require consideration of economic impact of Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection rules and regulations on small businesses: Ron Busby, U.S. Black Chamber, Inc., S3888 [18MY]

———Todd O. McCracken, National Small Business Association, S3888 [18MY]

———several organizations, S3887 [18MY]

Restoring American Financial Stability Act: several housing and community development organizations, S3520 [11MY]

———Vicki Cox Golder, National Association of Realtors, S3500, S3519 [11MY]

Role of small business sector in job creation: Zoltan Acs, SBA, S7151 [16SE]

S corporation self-employment payroll tax increase: Alan R. Einhorn, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, S5241 [22JN]

Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Tax Act: Nancy McLernon, Organization for International Investment, H2289 [24MR]

Small business health care tax credit: Steven D. Yeater, S6871 [5AU]

Small Business Jobs Act: Camden R. Fine, Independent Community Bankers of America (organization), S7020 [13SE], H6933 [23SE]

———Floyd E. Stoner, American Bankers Association, S7020 [13SE]

———Mike Duffin, Precision Machined Products Association, S7154 [16SE]

———Richard H. Neiman, S6727 [4AU]

———Robert C. Kiener, Precision Machined Products Association, S7154 [16SE]

———Robert E. McKenna, Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association, S7155 [16SE]

———Robert L. Akers, Jr., National Tooling & Machining Association, S7154 [16SE]

———Scott DeFife, National Restaurant Association, S6509 [29JY]

———Tom Cochran, U.S. Conference of Mayors, S6725 [4AU]

———William E. Gaskin, Precision Metalforming Association, S7154 [16SE]

———William E. Gaskin, Precision Metalforming Association and Robert L. Akers, Jr., National Tooling & Machining Association, S7153 [16SE]

Small Business Lending Fund Act: American Bankers Association, E1125 [16JN]

———Vicki Cox Golder, National Association of Realtors, H4517 [16JN]

Tax Hike Prevention Act: several Senators, S8327 [1DE], H7877 [2DE]

Lists

Arkansas Business (publication) ``40 Under 40'' honorees, S5266 [22JN]

Denton County, TX, businessmen, chambers of commerce representatives, and local officials delegation members visiting the District of Columbia, H3518 [18MY]

Organization for International Investment members, H2290 [24MR]

Organizations endorsing H.R. 5297, Small Business Jobs Act, S7019 [13SE]

Organizations supporting H.R. 5297, Small Business Jobs Act, S6471 [29JY]

Organizations supporting Snowe amendment to S. 3217, Restoring American Financial Stability Act, requiring consideration of economic impact of Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection rules and regulations on small businesses, S3887 [18MY]

Small Business Jobs Act newspaper and magazine story headlines, S6506 [29JY]

Memorandums

Small Business Lending Fund Act: Independent Community Bankers of America (organization), H4517 [16JN]

Messages

Budget of the U.S. Government for Fiscal Year 2011: President Obama, S390 [1FE], H445-H447 [2FE]

Motions

Dept. of the Treasury: create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to make capital investments in eligible institutions to increase availability of credit for small businesses (H.R. 5297), S5430 [24JN], S5515 [29JN], S6073 [21JY], S6293, S6340 [27JY], S6473 [29JY], S6974 [5AU], S7140 [15SE], S7146 [16SE], H4616 [17JN], H6930 [23SE]

Domestic policy: provide a fully offset temporary extension of certain programs so as not to increase the deficit (S. 3153), S2091, S2094 [25MR]

———temporarily extend certain programs (H.R. 4691), S933 [2MR]

Economy: making appropriations for jobs creation and retention (H.R. 2847), S559 [11FE], S685 [23FE], S1479 [11MR], S1634 [17MR], H1136 [4MR]

SBA: enhance the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (H.R. 2965), S10386 [16DE], H8396 [15DE]

Taxation: provide incentives for small business job creation, extend Build America Bonds program, and provide other infrastructure job creation tax incentives (H.R. 4849), H2295 [24MR]

———provide incentives for small business job creation (H.R. 5486), H4477 [15JN]

Outlines

Addressing small business needs to create jobs, S1640 [17MR]

Press releases

Angel Capital Association Supports Amendments to Financial Reform Bill—Sen. Dodd's Amendments Allow for Efficient Capital Access for Entrepreneurs and Also Improve Fraud Protection for Investors: Angel Capital Association, S3813 [17MY]

ICBA and 28 State Community Bank Associations Urge Prompt Passage of Small Business Lending Fund Bill: Independent Community Bankers of America (organization), S5512 [29JN]

Manufacturers Applaud Senator Voinovich for His Support of Small Business Jobs Act: Precision Metalforming Association and National Tooling & Machining Association, S7154 [16SE]

NSBA Opposes Health Care Reform Bill, With Regret: National Small Business Association, S1951 [24MR]

State Regulators Support Administration's Small Business Lending Proposals: Neil Milner, Conference of State Bank Supervisors, H4518 [16JN]

Remarks in House

African Americans: impact of unemployment and importance of job creation, H1423-H1430 [15MR]

Alexander City, AL: anniversary of Alexander City Chamber of Commerce, E98 [27JA]

Allen Organ Co.: tribute, E1778 [29SE]

American Craft Beer Week: support goals and ideals (H. Res. 1297), H3509, H3510 [18MY]

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: impact of stimulus funding, H657 [23FE], H5536 [13JY]

———rescind all stimulus funds that remain unobligated (H.R. 2842), H6596 [10AU]

———making emergency supplemental for disaster relief, summer youth jobs programs, and SBA loans program, and rescind amounts from certain accounts (H.R. 4899), Senate amendments, H5307, H5358-H5407 [1JY], H5551 [14JY], H5621, H5657 [15JY], H5730, H5752 [20JY], H5960 [22JY], H6029 [26JY], H6049, H6050, H6052-H6068 [27JY], H6168 [28JY], E1293, E1296 [13JY], E1318 [14JY], E1331, E1341 [15JY], E1445, E1449, E1450, E1452 [28JY], E1469 [29JY], E1505, E1534 [30JY]

———making supplemental appropriations for economic stimulus (H.R. 1), conference report, H316, H317 [21JA], H372 [26JA], H2315 [24MR], H6630 [14SE]

Arizona: encourage job creation through the Copper Basin Jobs Project and the Four Forest Restoration Initiative, H608 [9FE]

Awrey Bakeries LLC: anniversary, E529 [13AP]

Bakersfield, CA: anniversary of Luigi's Delicatessen, E1874 [29SE]

Bankruptcy: make technical corrections to U.S. Code provisions (H.R. 6198), H7158-H7161 [28SE], E1730 [23SE], E1973 [18NO]

———make technical corrections to U.S. Code provisions (H.R. 6198), Senate amendment, H8535 [16DE]

Belleville, IL: anniversary of Eckert's Family Farms, E1190 [24JN]

Bjorklund, Byron: SBA Minnesota Small Business of the Year award recipient, E922 [24MY]

Bronx, NY: anniversary of Loeser's Deli, E2179 [18DE]

Business and industry: develop an industrial policy to meet the needs of a stronger economy, H8083, H8084 [7DE]

———eliminate tax incentives to move jobs and profits overseas, H4091, H4092 [28MY]

———provide support for small business concerns, H2823 [22AP]

Camacho, Keven: SBA Financial Services Champion of the Year award recipient, E688 [27AP]

Carroll Cut-Rate Furniture Co.: anniversary, E1105 [15JN]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: urge testimony from chief actuary on impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, H3173 [5MY]

Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut: anniversary, E1972 [18NO]

Chan, Jack: SBA Minority Champion of the Year award recipient, E687 [27AP]

Cherokee, NC: Eastern Band of Cherokee AdvantageWest Economic Development Group Certified Entrepreneurial Community designee, E798 [11MY]

Chicago, IL: anniversary of Ann Sather Restaurant, E378 [15MR]

China: authorize assistance to small- and medium-sized U.S. businesses to promote exports (H.R. 2310), H973 [2MR]

Clark, Trapper: SBA Maine Small Business Person of the Year award recipient, E827 [12MY]

Colleges and universities: allow cooperation between community colleges, universities, and Manufacturing Extension Partnership Centers under computer and network security capacity building grants, H508, H509 [3FE]

Columbus, OH: anniversary of Elford, Inc., E325 [9MR]

Committee on Economics (Joint): release of report entitled ``Understanding the Economy, State by State'', H5963 [22JY]

Construction industries: include certain construction and land development loans in the definition of small business lending (H.R. 6191), H7081, H7082 [28SE]

Corporations: establish exemptions to information reporting requirements for certain payments to corporations, H6812 [22SE]

———repeal expansion of information reporting requirements for certain payments to corporations, H6812 [22SE], H6887, H6934-H6937, H6972 [23SE], H7456 [16NO], H7528 [17NO]

———repeal expansion of information reporting requirements for certain payments to corporations (H.R. 5141), H2888 [27AP], H5522 [13JY], H6596 [10AU], H7578 [18NO]

Credit: improve access, H3633-H3637 [19MY], H5538 [13JY]

———promulgate regulations regarding debit and credit card interchange transaction fees, H3874 [27MY], H4680 [23JN], H5254, H5256 [30JN]

Dallas, TX: tribute to Magazine of the Associated General Contractors of America Aon Build America Award recipients, E1156 [22JN]

Delaware: anniversary of Grotto Pizza, E1665 [16SE]

Democratic Party: national agenda, H4950 [29JN]

Denton County, TX: tribute to businessmen, chambers of commerce representatives, and local officials delegation trip to the District of Columbia, H3518 [18MY]

Dept. of Commerce: expand Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program and Technology Innovation Program funding, H3390 [12MY]

———Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program funding, H1494 [16MR]

———require Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program to evaluate challenges that are unique to small manufacturers and facilitate improved communication betweeen centers, H3352 [12MY]

Dept. of Defense: clarify that program to expand use of non-traditional suppliers and manufactuers should limit contracts to companies that are within the national technology and industrial base, H2973 [28AP]

———engage in outreach to businesses in the vicinity of defense installations to notify them of contract opportunities, H2971, H2972 [28AP]

———increase access to contracts by minority, women, and veteran-owned businesses, H2960 [28AP]

———provide list of minority-, women-, and disadvantaged-owned small businesses who received defense contracts, H3997 [27MY]

Dept. of Energy: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy funding, E842 [13MY]

Dept. of the Treasury: capital treatment of small business lending fund investments, H6931 [23SE]

———create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to make capital investments in eligible institutions to increase availability of credit for small businesses (H.R. 5297), H3547 [19MY], H4443 [15JN], H4510, H4513-H4542 [16JN], H4600, H4610-H4618 [17JN], H4679 [23JN], H4913 [29JN], H5600 [14JY], H6029 [26JY], H6262 [28JY], H6688 [15SE], H6765 [16SE], H6812 [22SE], H6883, H6885, H6981 [23SE], H7027, H7028 [28SE], H7215, H7216 [29SE], E1125 [16JN], E1127, E1129, E1131, E1133, E1139 [17JN], E1153, E1165 [22JN], E1723 [23SE], E1765, E1775, E1777, E1863 [29SE]

———create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to make capital investments in eligible institutions to increase availability of credit for small businesses (H.R. 5297), Senate amendment, H6905-H6939 [23SE], E1751 [28SE], E1780 [29SE]

———create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to make capital investments in eligible institutions to increase availability of credit for small businesses (H.R. 5297), unanimous-consent agreement, H4513 [16JN]

———define small business under Small Business Lending Fund Program, increase loan volume, establish baseline measurement for lending, and include certain lending centers as qualified lending institutions, H4530, H4531 [16JN]

———ensure farmers and rural communities receive equal consideration through the Small Business Lending Fund Program, H4540, H4541 [16JN]

———ensure selection criteria for the Small Business Early Stage Investment program includes the extent to which investment capital would be concentrated in targeted industries, H4538 [16JN]

———ensure that community banks participating in the Small Business Lending Fund Program prioritize, reach out to, and focus on veteran-owned small businesses, H4529 [16JN]

———ensure that Small Business Lending Fund Program materials are culturally and linguistically diverse, provide for minority outreach, and disaggregate data, H4541 [16JN]

———ensure that State-run venture capital programs are eligible to participate in the State Small Business Credit Initiative program and clarify eligibility of State financing programs, H4537 [16JN]

———establish the Office of Small Business Lending Fund Oversight, H4535, H4536 [16JN]

———facilitate participation by Community Development Financial Institutions Fund recipients in the Small Business Lending Fund Program, H6931, H6932 [23SE]

———give preference in allocating Small Business Lending Fund Program funds to areas where businesses and the economy have been affected by Deepwater Horizon incident, H4537, H4538 [16JN], E1129 [17JN]

———give preference in allocating Small Business Lending Fund Program funds to areas where there are high unemployment rates that exceed the national average, H4539 [16JN]

———give the Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program oversight of the Small Business Lending Fund Program and certify that banks are receiving funds based on merit, H4616, H4617 [17JN]

———include construction and land development loans as eligible under the Small Business Lending Fund Program, H4612, H4613 [17JN]

———include nonowner-occupied commercial real estate loans as eligible under the Small Business Lending Fund Program, H4531 [16JN]

———make a certification when making purchases under the Small Business Lending Fund Program (H.R. 5551), H4682-H4685 [23JN]

———require financial institutions lending funds received from the Small Business Lending Fund Program indicate such fact on applicable loan documents, H4534, H4535 [16JN]

Dept. of Transportation: Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization funding, H6372 [29JY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: clarify responsibility to verify the veteran status of owners of small business concerns listed in the database maintained by the Dept., H7016 [28SE]

———improve laws relative to small business concerns and employment assistance (H.R. 4220), H7013 [28SE]

Dexter, MO: Hickory Log restuarant induction into Missouri Restaurant Hall of Fame, E98 [27JA]

District of Columbia: anniversary of Frager's Hardware (business), E1699 [22SE]

———anniversary of Monocle (restaurant), E2079 [7DE]

Dixie-Narco, Inc.: tribute, E160 [4FE]

Domestic policy: temporarily extend certain programs (H.R. 4691), H901-H906 [25FE], H938 [26FE], H1227 [10MR]

Economy: comparison between policies of past Presidential administrations and the Obama administration, H5528, H5532-H5534 [13JY], H5597, H5599, H5600 [14JY], H5802-H5811 [20JY], H6049, H6050, H6051, H6147-H6153 [27JY], H6263, H6269 [28JY], H6650 [14SE]

———create jobs through tax relief for small businesses, make unemployment benefits tax free, use repaid Troubled Asset Relief Program funds for debt reduction, and reduce frivolous lawsuits (H.R. 4513), H390 [27JA], H658 [23FE]

———extension of tax cuts for upper-income households, H8249 [8DE]

———impact of failure to extend Bush administration tax cuts, H3637 [19MY], H3808 [25MY], H6167 [28JY], H6630 [14SE], H6741, H6749-H6753 [15SE], H6792 [16SE], H6813 [22SE], H7199 [28SE], H7225, H7227 [29SE], H7655, H7656 [30NO], H7761 [1DE], H8018-H8021 [2DE], H8250-H8252 [8DE], H8508-H8511 [15DE]

———importance of job creation, H47 [13JA], H270, H304, H305 [21JA], H351, H358, H366 [26JA], H539-H542 [3FE], H630 [22FE], H651, H652, H653, H654, H655, H656, H659, H660, H661, H662, H663, H664, H665, H666, H667, H732 [23FE], H760, H794 [24FE], H936, H954 [26FE], H1011-H1016 [2MR], H1176 [9MR], H1224 [10MR], H1327 [11MR], H1362, H1386 [12MR], H1719 [19MR], H2263, H2264, H2275 [24MR], H2326-H2330 [25MR], H2529 [14AP], H2782 [21AP], H2818-H2822 [22AP], H2887 [27AP], H3084 [4MY], H3132, H3188, H3189 [5MY], H3316, H3425-H3432 [12MY], H3460, H3461, H3468 [13MY], H3547, H3548, H3633-H3637 [19MY], H3730-H3733 [24MY], H3749, H3751, H3752, H3753, H3754, H3758, H3759, H3764 [25MY], H3842 [26MY], H4093, H4094, H4096 [28MY], H4237-H4240 [8JN], H4249, H4250, H4251, H4316, H4318 [9JN], H4372 [10JN], H4437, H4440, H4441, H4447, H4480, H4486, H4487, H4491-H4497 [15JN], H4510 [16JN], H4670 [22JN], H4681 [23JN], H4782, H4783 [24JN], H4911, H4912, H4950 [29JN], H5227, H5230, H5288, H5289 [30JN], H5315, H5316 [1JY], H5505, H5520 [13JY], H5591, H5592, H5596-H5610 [14JY], H5679 [19JY], H5723, H5724, H5726, H5727, H5728, H5729, H5730, H5799-H5804 [20JY], H5821, H5823, H5824, H5905-H5912 [21JY], H5953, H5964-H5974 [22JY], H5988, H6029-H6035 [26JY], H6048, H6049, H6152 [27JY], H6168 [28JY], H6321 [29JY], H6688 [15SE], H6771-H6773 [16SE], H7502, H7528-H7537 [17NO], H7839-H7845 [1DE], H8508 [15DE], H8523 [16DE], E257 [25FE], E261 [26FE], E1074, E1075 [10JN], E1513 [30JY]

———Jobs Now program funding, H2220 [23MR], H4092 [28MY]

———making appropriations for jobs creation and retention (H.R. 2847), H303 [21JA], H362, H363 [26JA], H393 [27JA], H653, H661, H664, H736 [23FE], H761 [24FE], H954 [26FE], H2649 [20AP], H3315 [12MY], H3469 [13MY], H5601 [14JY]

———making appropriations for jobs creation and retention (H.R. 2847), consideration of Senate amendment (H. Res. 1137), H1115-H1123 [4MR]

———making appropriations for jobs creation and retention (H.R. 2847), Senate amendment, H1111, H1125-H1147, H1151, H1152 [4MR], H1451, H1488, H1495 [16MR], H1555 [17MR], H2286 [24MR], E317 [5MR], E368 [12MR]

———national objectives priority assignments, H6649 [14SE]

———provide tax relief, ease regulatory burden, and provide expanded access to credit (H.R. 5554), H5727, H5730 [20JY]

———reform health care, Social Security, tax code for individuals and small businesses, and the budget process (H.R. 4529), H1915 [21MR], E950 [26MY], E1369 [20JY]

Employment: disparity between Federal and private sector wages and benefits, H7557 [18NO]

———help to create new jobs and drive economic recovery, H1492-H1499 [16MR]

———prohibit conversion of private employees working on military bases to public employees to encourage growth, H3884 [27MY]

Entrepreneurs: tribute, E241 [25FE]

FDIC: require financial regulators issue non-conflicting guidelines to banks relative to financial regulatory capital requirements and lending standards, H4533 [16JN]

Financial institutions: allow small banks to amortize losses or write-downs on real estate loans in order to increase availability of credit for small businesses, H4532, H4533 [16JN]

———facilitate access by small businesses to capital, H1014 [2MR]

———impact of government regulations on lending ability of community banks, H607 [9FE]

Fish and fishing: economic impact of Federal regulations on Florida fishing industry, H799 [24FE]

Florida: tribute to small businesses, H4619 [17JN]

Foreign trade: implement National Export Initiative to encourage an increase in U.S. exports, H973 [2MR]

Garrett Electronics, Inc.: tribute, E176 [22FE]

Grainfield, KS: tribute to Harvest Market, H1085 [3MR]

Gulf of Mexico: call on BP P.L.C., to improve system to resolve claims of economic injury caused by the Deepwater Horizon incident, H4218 [8JN], H4371 [10JN]

———processing of claims relative to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident, H6540 [30JY]

———require BP P.L.C., to establish a gulf coast recovery fund to cover cleanup efforts and damage claims associated with Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident, H4441 [15JN], H4580 [16JN], H4619 [17JN], H5291-H5293 [30JN]

Health: establish nationwide health insurance purchasing pool for small businesses and the self-employed to offer a choice of health plans and make health coverage more affordable and accessible (H.R. 2360), H1496 [16MR], H1901, H1904 [21MR]

———health insurance premiums rates, H2991-H2996 [28AP]

———national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures relative to impact on small businesses, H654 [23FE]

Immigration: establish employment-based immigrant visa for alien entrepreneurs who have received significant capital from investors to establish business in the U.S. (H.R. 5193), E709 [29AP]

Insurance: allow sharing of historical loss data and performance of actuarial services by health insurance companies, H774-H778, H788 [24FE]

———impact from health insurance premiums rates, H1702 [19MR], H2254 [23MR]

Intellectual property: anniversary of the Bayh-Dole Act on retention of intellectual property arising from federally funded research (H. Con. Res. 328), H7410, H7411 [15NO]

Investments: authorize certain debt refinancing (H.R. 2527), H323 [21JA]

———increase funding for individual development accounts through funds received by eliminating the domestic production tax deduction for coal and other hard mineral fossil fuels (H.R. 6067), E1508 [30JY]

J.M. Waller Associates, Inc.: SBA Washington Metro Area District Small Business Person of the Year Award recipient, E1113 [16JN]

Lamont, Tom: Laredo, TX, Business Hall of Fame inductee, E775 [6MY]

Lewis, Rodney: Laredo, TX, Business Hall of Fame inductee, E780 [6MY]

Lewisville, TX: tribute to Lewisville Feed Mill, E2028 [1DE]

Mesa, Arthur F.: SBA Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year award recipient, E687 [27AP]

Mid City Electric (business): anniversary, E95 [27JA]

Mikawaya (business): anniversary, E303 [4MR]

Minimum wage: adjust minimum wage schedule for American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands, H7361-H7364 [29SE]

———impact of increase, H2276 [24MR]

Monterey Bay, CA: anniversary of Federico's Drive In Shoe Service, E1065 [10JN]

Motor vehicles: restore economic rights of automobile dealers (H.R. 2743), H3061 [29AP]

Mount Angel Telephone (business): anniversary, E1728 [23SE]

National Commission on American Recovery and Reinvestment: establish (H.R. 4219), H336 [26JA]

National Small Business Week: observance, H3726 [24MY]

Native Americans: facilitate business and agricultural leasing of Navajo Nation lands (H.R. 6210), E1732 [23SE]

Nebraska: tribute to Third District Excellence in Economic Development Award recipients, E1707 [22SE]

Nesin Therapy Services, Inc.: tribute, E863 [18MY]

New York, NY: tribute to Ferragosto Festival, E1586 [14SE]

Oakland, CA: anniversary of Children's Fairyland, E1583 [14SE]

Obama, President: evaluation of administration, H5723, H5724, H5725 [20JY], H5924 [22JY]

———evaluation of economic policies, H2562 [14AP], H5737, H5738, H5739 [20JY], H6583 [10AU]

Oil Pollution Act: authorize advances from Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (S. 3473), H4336-H4342, H4381 [10JN], H5914 [21JY]

———require polluters to pay the full cost of oil spills, H4682 [23JN]

———require polluters to pay the full cost of oil spills (H.R. 5214), H4381-H4383 [10JN], H6498 [30JY]

OPower (company): Alliance To Save Energy Andromeda Star Award recipient, H6688 [15SE]

Pangelinan, Shana G.: SBA Jeffrey Butland Family-Owned Business of the Year award recipient, E686 [27AP]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: impact on insurance coverage for part-time workers, H4399 [14JN]

———impact on small businesses, H2832 [22AP], H4372 [10JN]

Penzel Construction Co., Inc.: anniversary, E2099 [9DE]

Ponzi Vineyards (business): anniversary, E1623 [15SE]

Portland, OR: tribute to Portland Development Commission for exceeding diversity goals in construction contracting, E182 [22FE]

Power resources: national energy policy, H909 [25FE], H2323 [25MR]

Real estate: address instability in commerical real estate market, H3179 [5MY]

Regional Contracting Services, LLC: District of Columbia Small Business of the Year award recipient, E524 [13AP]

Reyes, Eddie: SBA Minority Small Business Champion of the Year award recipient, E878 [19MY]

Savage Precision Fabrication, Inc.: SBA Small Business Subcontractor of the Year award recipient, E1484 [29JY], E1523 [30JY]

SBA: enhance the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (H.R. 2965), Senate amendment, H8359, H8390-H8410 [15DE], H8944 [22DE], E2162 [16DE], E2177, E2180, E2182, E2197, E2199 [18DE], E2224 [21DE]

———enhance the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (H.R. 2965), consideration of Senate amendment (H. Res. 1764), H8383-H8388 [15DE]

———ensure fairness and transparency in contracting with small business concerns (H.R. 2568), H5963 [22JY]

———establish a small business intermediary lending pilot program (H.R. 5332), H3665 [20MY]

———establish the Small Business Borrower Assistance Program to provide payments of principal and interest on qualifying small business loans, H4611, H4612 [17JN]

———expand export promotion activities relative to small- and medium-sized manufacturers, E1723 [23SE]

———expand export promotion activities relative to small- and medium-sized manufacturers (H.R. 5797), H5925 [22JY]

———extend Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, E1542 [9AU]

———extend the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program, H401 [27JA]

———improve business development program (H.R. 4818), H2896 [27AP]

———improve the Express Loan Program (H.R. 4598), H1493, H1494 [16MR]

———permit use of previously appropriated funds to extend Small Business Loan Guarantee Program (H.R. 4938), H2414-H2416 [25MR]

———provide financing to support early-stage small businesses in targeted industries (H.R. 3738), H4516 [16JN]

Schaefer, Steve: Rotary Club of Golden, CO, Ethics in Business Award recipient, E557 [15AP]

Sedalia, MO: anniversary of Patricia's Mexican Restaurant, E852 [13MY]

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.: anniversary, E1050 [9JN]

Small Business Act: extend programs (H.R. 4508), H400, H401 [27JA]

———extend programs (S. 3253), H2879, H2895, H2896 [27AP], E692 [28AP]

———extend programs (S. 3839), H7090 [28SE]

———improve programs providing access to capital (H.R. 3854), H4516 [16JN]

———reauthorize (H.R. 5849), H6097 [27JY], E1499 [30JY], E1542 [9AU]

Small Business Investment Act: extend programs (H.R. 4508), H400, H401 [27JA]

———extend programs (S. 3253), H2879, H2895, H2896 [27AP], E692 [28AP]

———extend programs (S. 3839), H7090 [28SE]

———improve programs providing access to capital (H.R. 3854), H4516 [16JN]

———increase maximum amount for loans to State and local development companies and provide temporary authority for debt refinancing of commercial real estate (H.R. 5412), H3842 [26MY]

———reauthorize (H.R. 5849), H6097 [27JY], E1499 [30JY], E1542 [9AU]

States: ensure women and minority-owned businesses are provided with capital lending opportunities, H4513 [16JN]

Sturtevant, Thomas: SBA Maine Small Business Person of the Year award recipient, E827 [12MY]

Tacoma, WA: Farrelli's Wood Fire Pizza recipient of National Restaurant Association Restaurant Neighbor Award, E2067 [7DE]

———Northwest Physicians Network recipient of Pierce County Health Care Champions Business Award, E1521 [30JY]

Taxation: allow certain small businesses to defer payment of tax (H.R. 2490), E140 [3FE]

———allow companies to utilize existing alternative minimum tax credits to create and maintain U.S. jobs (H.R. 4850), H1494 [16MR], H3635 [19MY]

———allow deductions for interest payments on car loans and sales and excise taxes on certain motor vehicle purchases, H2487 [13AP]

———allow employers a refundable credit for increasing employment, H1488 [16MR]

———allow employers a refundable credit for increasing employment (H.R. 4730), H1034 [3MR]

———allow self-employed individuals to deduct health insurance costs in computing self-employment taxes (H.R. 1470), H1904 [21MR]

———allow the private sector to create robust levels of economic growth (H.R. 5029), H2823 [22AP], H3101 [4MY]

———clarify that wages paid to unauthorized aliens are not deductible (H.R. 3580), H3072 [29AP], H3438 [12MY], H3640 [19MY], H6869 [22SE], H7028, H7031 [28SE], H8929 [21DE]

———encourage investment in certain industries by providing an exclusion from tax on certain gains (H.R. 4877), H3633 [19MY]

———establish a tax, regulatory, and legal structure that encourages small businesses to expand and innovate (H.R. 5109), E626 [22AP]

———establish tax-preferred Small Business Start-up Savings Accounts (H.R. 4309), H307 [21JA]

———exclude from gross income compensation provided by BP P.L.C., for victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident (H.R. 5598), H5897 [21JY]

———exclude income attributable to certain empowerment zone real property from gross income (H.R. 6041), E1512 [30JY]

———extend estate tax relief, H8037 [7DE], H8513-H8517 [15DE], H8523, H8554, H8555, H8560, H8562, H8573-H8577 [16DE]

———make certain middle class tax relief permanent, increase limits on small business expensing of certain depreciable assets, and extend alternative minimum tax relief, H7759, H7760, H7761, H7762, H7763, H7850-H7852 [1DE], H7858, H7859-H7864, H7876-H7887 [2DE], H8079-H8085 [7DE], H8092, H8248-H8252, H8254, H8255 [8DE], H8266, H8280 [9DE], H8295 [14DE], H8356, H8357, H8358, H8359, H8508-H8517 [15DE], H8522, H8523, H8524, H8525-H8534, H8545-H8595 [16DE], H8600, H8777 [17DE], E2071 [7DE], E2098 [9DE], E2128 [14DE], E2178, E2186, E2189, E2190, E2195, E2200, E2202, E2206 [18DE], E2225, E2232 [21DE]

———permanently extend Bush administration tax cuts, H6687, H6733, H6735 [15SE], H6765, H6766, H6797-H6800 [16SE], H6812 [22SE], H6968-H6972, H6981-H6985 [23SE], H7216, H7217, H7219 [29SE], H7457 [16NO], H7535-H7537 [17NO], H7839-H7845 [1DE], E1872 [29SE]

———permanently extend Bush administration tax cuts and provide permanent alternative minimum tax and estate tax relief (S. 3773), H8021 [2DE]

———permanently extend estate tax relief, H4487, H4488 [15JN]

———provide a temporary payroll increase tax credit for certain employers (H.R. 4585), H1032 [3MR], E146 [3FE]

———provide incentives for small business job creation, extend Build America Bonds program, and provide other infrastructure job creation tax incentives (H.R. 4849), H2244 [23MR], H2281-H2299 [24MR], H2321 [25MR], H3469 [13MY], H4437, H4441 [15JN], H6031 [26JY], H6360 [29JY], E500, E507, E508 [25MR]

———provide incentives for small business job creation, extend Build America Bonds program, and provide other infrastructure job creation tax incentives (H.R. 4849), motion to recommit, H2296, H2297 [24MR]

———provide incentives for small business job creation (H.R. 5486), H4469-H4479 [15JN], E1165 [22JN]

———provide incentives for small business job creation (H.R. 5486), consideration (H. Res. 1436), H4447-H4454 [15JN]

———provide incentives for small business job creation (H.R. 5486), motion to recommit, H4477, H4478 [15JN], H4599 [17JN]

———provide permanent incentives for economic growth (H.R. 470), H655 [23FE]

———provide relief for small businesses (H.R. 1763), H4485, H4489 [15JN]

———rates, H186 [19JA], H654 [23FE], H2508, H2509, H2510, H2511, H2512 [14AP], H2622-H2638 [15AP], H4619 [17JN], H5989 [26JY], H6688 [15SE], H6813 [22SE]

———require any business who makes a purchase from another corporate entity that is over certain yearly cumulative amount to file a 1099 form, H2911 [27AP]

———retention of newly hired employee payroll tax exemption by companies working with professional employer organizations, H1917 [21MR]

Trading Post Train Shop (business): anniversary, E1799 [29SE]

Tung, Linda: SBA Women in Business Champion of the Year award recipient, E687 [27AP]

Unemployment: rates, H5723, H5724 [20JY], H6049, H6050, H6150 [27JY]

Veterans: assist small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans (H.R. 5627), E1233 [30JN]

Williams County, OH: anniversary of farming operation currently owned by Vernon and Carol Sloan, E2214 [21DE]

Women: health care for women, H1598, H1599, H1600, H1627-H1641 [18MR], H1659, H1711, H1719 [19MR]

Wu, Fong S.: SBA Person of the Year award recipient, E688 [27AP]

Remarks in Senate

Agren Appliance & Television (business): tribute, S11033 [22DE]

American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act: strike section on employment tax treatment of professional service businesses, S5416-S5419 [24JN]

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: impact of stimulus funding, S234 [26JA]

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental for disaster relief, summer youth jobs programs, and SBA loans program, and rescind amounts from certain accounts (H.R. 4899), S3402 [7MY], S3951 [19MY], S4111-S4123, S4129 [24MY], S4166, S4169, S4172-S4176, S4181-S4188, S4190-S4204 [25MY], S4397, S4398, S4402, S4405, S4434-S4437, S4468 [26MY], S4474, S4497, S4499-S4507 [27MY], S4567, S4570, S4571 [28MY], S6171, S6188-S6190 [22JY], S7738 [29SE]

———making emergency supplemental for disaster relief, summer youth jobs programs, and SBA loans program, and rescind amounts from certain accounts (H.R. 4899), unanimous-consent request, S3386 [7MY]

———offset emergency supplemental spending for disaster relief, summer youth jobs programs, and SBA loans program by eliminating wasteful, inefficient, and duplicative spending, S4196-S4199 [25MY], S4406-S4409, S4424 [26MY], S6171 [22JY]

Arizona: increases in health insurance premiums, S6155 [22JY]

Arkansas Business (publication): tribute to ``40 Under 40'' honorees, S5266 [22JN]

Axiom Technologies, LLC: tribute, S6197 [22JY]

Baltimore, MD: anniversary of Avara International Academy of Hair Design and Technology, S6729 [4AU]

Bankruptcy: make technical corrections to U.S. Code provisions (H.R. 6198), S8205 [19NO], S10508 [17DE]

Business and industry: eliminate tax incentives to move jobs and profits overseas, S1352 [10MR], S7068-S7071 [14SE]

———provide support for small business concerns, S2257 [14AP]

Chapel Hill Floral (business): tribute, S535 [9FE]

Clark, Trapper: SBA Maine Small Business Person of the Year award recipient, S4080 [20MY]

Congress: accomplishments of the 111th Congress, S11012, S11013, S11024-S11026 [22DE]

Contracts: establish fair procedures for arbitration clauses, S5221-S5223 [22JN]

———establish fair procedures for arbitration clauses (S. 931), S2016 [24MR]

Corporations: establish exemptions to information reporting requirements for certain payments to corporations, S7051-S7062 [14SE]

———increase threshold amount for information reporting requirements for certain payments to corporations (S. 3783), S7058, S7063, S7064 [14SE]

———repeal expansion of information reporting requirements for certain payments to corporations, S6345 [28JY], S6865 [5AU], S7007, S7015 [13SE], S7051-S7062 [14SE], S7155 [16SE], S7477 [27SE], S7932 [17NO], S8211, S8219-S8224 [29NO], S8328, S8329 [1DE], S9014 [14DE], S10246 [15DE]

———repeal expansion of information reporting requirements for certain payments to corporations (S. 3578), S5759 [13JY], S7931 [17NO]

———repeal expansion of information reporting requirements for certain payments to corporations (S. 3946), S7907 [15NO]

———repeal expansion of information reporting requirements for certain payments to corporations and rescind unspent Federal funds to offset loss in revenues, S8219-S8224, S8229, S8230 [29NO]

Credit: promulgate regulations regarding debit and credit card interchange transaction fees, S3455 [10MY], S3588-S3590 [12MY], S3695-S3698, S3704, S3705 [13MY], S4839-S4841 [10JN], S4929-S4931 [15JN], S4977 [16JN], S5925 [15JY], S10995-S10997 [22DE]

———reform usury rates on credit cards issued to small businesses, S1642 [17MR]

Credit unions: raise limits on member business loans, S6381 [28JY]

Dakota BUSINESS Finance (company): SBA Certified Development Company of the Year award recipient, S2800 [29AP]

Damariscotta, ME: tribute to Damariscotta River Grill (restaurant), S1455 [11MR]

Democratic Party: national agenda, S5141-S5143 [18JN], S6558 [2AU], S7004-S7008 [13SE]

Dept. of Commerce: expand Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program and Technology Innovation Program to include projects with potential for commercial exploitation in foreign markets, S6170, S6188 [22JY]

———expand Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program for projects to create jobs, increase energy efficiency, and promote technology transfer (S. 3340), S3541 [11MY]

———export promotion activities funding, S6150, S6151 [22JY], S6382 [28JY]

———reauthorize Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program (S. 3523), S5320 [23JN]

———reduce matching requirement for Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program participants (S. 3519), S5276 [22JN]

Dept. of Energy: establish a Supply Star program to support businesses in promoting supply chain energy efficiency (S. 3396), S4145 [24MY]

Dept. of the Treasury: create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to make capital investments in eligible institutions to increase availability of credit for small businesses (H.R. 5297), S5161 [18JN], S5163 [21JN], S5423, S5424 [24JN], S5515-S5523 [29JN], S5655, S5666, S5674, S5675 [30JN], S5771-S5773, S5775 [13JY], S5797, S5798 [14JY], S5954 [15JY], S5980, S5985-S5988 [19JY], S6002, S6009 [20JY], S6053, S6067-S6073 [21JY], S6132, S6148-S6177, S6180-S6190 [22JY], S6285, S6292 [27JY], S6345, S6346, S6351, S6354-S6356, S6359-S6365, S6373-S6376, S6381-S6388 [28JY], S6459-S6476, S6494-S6509 [29JY], S6568-S6572, S6580 [2AU], S6724-S6727 [4AU], S6845-S6848, S6868, S6972-S6974 [5AU], S7003, S7007, S7012-S7015, S7018-S7022 [13SE], S7051-S7065, S7067 [14SE], S7097, S7102-S7113, S7116-S7120, S7122-S7125, S7139, S7140 [15SE], S7144-S7158 [16SE], S7408 [23SE], S7440 [24SE], S7455 [27SE]

———facilitate community bank access to capital in order to increase lending to small businesses, S319-S321 [28JA]

———guarantee payment on bonds or notes used to provide loans to community development financial institutions, S4035, S4036 [20MY], S6383 [28JY], S6475 [29JY]

———make a certification when making purchases under the Small Business Lending Fund Program (H.R. 5551), S5456 [24JN], S5459 [25JN]

———prohibit institutions that have delinquent Troubled Asset Relief Program loans from accessing funds through the Small Business Lending Fund Program, S7108-S7110 [15SE]

———provide assistance to community depository institutions under the Public-Private Investment Program, S7102 [15SE]

Domestic policy: provide a fully offset temporary extension of certain programs so as not to increase the deficit (S. 3153), S1819, S1821 [23MR]

———provide a fully offset temporary extension of certain programs so as not to increase the deficit (S. 3153), motion to proceed, S2091-S2094 [25MR], S2145 [26MR]

———provide a fully offset temporary extension of certain programs so as not to increase the deficit (S. 3173), S2138, S2149-S2152 [26MR]

———temporarily extend certain programs, S836-S838 [1MR]

———temporarily extend certain programs (H.R. 4691), S761, S776-S792, S816 [25FE], S818-S821, S824 [26FE], S825, S826, S852-S854 [1MR], S898-S904, S910-S921, S923, S926-S934 [2MR], S1211 [5MR]

———temporarily extend certain programs (H.R. 4691), unanimous-consent agreement, S926 [2MR]

———temporarily extend certain programs (H.R. 4691), unanimous-consent request, S772, S773, S776, S778, S786, S792, S816 [25FE], S819, S820 [26FE], S826, S844 [1MR], S897, S898, S899 [2MR]

———temporarily extend certain programs (S. 3421), S4394 [25MY], S4397 [26MY]

———temporarily extend certain programs (S. 3421), unanimous-consent request, S4870 [14JN], S5097 [17JN], S5164 [21JN]

Economy: impact of failure to extend Bush administration tax cuts, S7077 [14SE], S7106 [15SE], S7309-S7311, S7327, S7332-S7334, S7342 [22SE], S7410 [23SE], S7463, S7468, S7470-S7472 [27SE], S8273 [30NO], S8317 [1DE], S8358, S8363-S8365, S8380 [2DE]

———importance of job creation, S112 [21JA], S137 [22JA], S222 [26JA], S363 [1FE], S413, S414, S429 [2FE], S846 [1MR], S1283 [9MR], S1435 [11MR], S2137 [26MR], S2189 [12AP], S4599, S4600 [7JN], S5414-S5418 [24JN], S5721 [12JY], S5808, S5822 [14JY], S6132 [22JY], S6238 [26JY], S7017, S7018 [13SE], S7079 [14SE], S7103, S7123 [15SE], S7405, S7408 [23SE], S8340-S8342 [1DE], S8754-S8757 [10DE]

———indicators of progress towards economic recovery, S8311 [1DE]

———making appropriations for jobs creation and retention (H.R. 2847), S509, S510 [9FE], S559 [11FE]

———making appropriations for jobs creation and retention (H.R. 2847), House amendment, S600-S613 [22FE], S677-S679, S681-S688, S691-S693 [23FE], S718-S727, S730 [24FE], S784 [25FE], S1212, S1224 [5MR], S1453, S1479 [11MR], S1496, S1500-S1504 [15MR], S1575, S1577-S1579, S1584 [16MR], S1633-S1638 [17MR], S1745 [18MR]

———making appropriations for jobs creation and retention (H.R. 2847), House amendment—unanimous-consent agreement, S693 [23FE]

———making appropriations for jobs creation and retention (H.R. 2847), House amendment—unanimous-consent request, S682 [23FE]

Employment: help to create new jobs and drive economic recovery, S1639-S1643 [17MR], S7156 [16SE]

———help to create new jobs and drive economic recovery (S. 3103), S1364-S1367 [10MR]

EPA: delay imposing fines on certain contractors who have been unable to complete training and obtain certification for lead-based paint removal, S4187, S4191 [25MY], S4410-S4413 [26MY], S4491, S4494-S4496, S4501 [27MY], S7738 [29SE]

FAA: Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program funding, S1802 [22MR]

FDIC: impact of granting liquidation authority over small depository institutions and large financial institutions, S3960 [19MY]

Federal Water Pollution Control Act: require restitution for victims of criminal violations, S6510 [29JY]

———require restitution for victims of criminal violations (S. 3466), S4746 [9JN]

Fiber Materials, Inc.: NASA Small Business Subcontractor of the Year Award recipient, S8710 [9DE]

Financial institutions: advance the ability of credit unions to promote small business growth and economic development opportunities, S5772 [13JY], S6354 [28JY]

———advance the ability of credit unions to promote small business growth and economic development opportunities (S. 2919), unanimous-consent request, S10725, S10726 [19DE]

———allow flexible mortgage loan payment terms based on seasonal incomes, S3072, S3073 [4MY]

———impact of government regulations on lending ability of community banks, S2189 [12AP]

———permit community banks to remain under FRS supervision, S2489, S2490 [21AP], S3138, S3139 [5MY], S3521-S3529 [11MY], S3573, S3574, S3575 [12MY]

———reform regulations for residential mortgage underwriting standards, S3513-S3521 [11MY], S3572, S3574, S3578 [12MY], S4043 [20MY]

Floods: small business and housing relief programs funding, S2199 [12AP]

FRS: exempt small businesses from regulation by Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, S3577, S3578, S3618 [12MY], S3862 [18MY], S4063, S4064 [20MY]

———require consideration of economic impact of Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection rules and regulations on small businesses, S3678-S3681 [13MY], S3884-S3888 [18MY]

Gay Island Oysters Inc.: tribute, S5436 [24JN]

Gerald Pellietier Inc.: tribute, S5695 [30JN]

Global Entrepreneurship Week: designate (S. Res. 681), S7992 [17NO]

Government regulations: ensure that the creation of jobs by small businesses is considered during the Federal legislative and rulemaking process (S. 3024), S704-S706 [23FE]

Gulf of Mexico: call on BP P.L.C., to improve system to resolve claims of economic injury caused by the Deepwater Horizon incident, S4964, S4965 [16JN]

———create system to resolve claims of economic injury caused by the Deepwater Horizon incident and renegotiate lease relative to incident to increase existing liability limits, S4841 [10JN]

———create system to resolve claims of economic injury caused by the Deepwater Horizon incident and renegotiate lease relative to incident to increase existing liability limits (S. 3410), S4394 [25MY], S4397, S4432 [26MY]

———require BP P.L.C., to establish a gulf coast recovery fund to cover cleanup efforts and damage claims associated with Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident, S4636 [8JN], S4722 [9JN], S4896, S4899, S4904 [15JN], S4952, S4962 [16JN], S5143 [18JN]

Harbor Farm (business): tribute, S10407 [16DE]

Health: health insurance premiums rates, S827-S836 [1MR], S2080 [25MR]

———repeal mandate that employers provide health insurance for employees (S. 3501), S7931 [17NO]

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act: repeal tax on unearned investment income Medicare contribution (S. 3712), S6887 [5AU]

Houlton, ME: tribute to Courtyard Cafe, S6878 [5AU]

Housing: assessment of Federal housing policy, S4046 [20MY]

Illinois: increases in health insurance premiums, S1286 [9MR]

Lander, Philip: SBA Maine Veteran Small Business Champion award recipient, S4846 [10JN]

Lesser, Katy: SBA Vermont Small Business Person of the Year award recipient, S4439 [26MY]

Lewiston, ME: tribute to Fuel (restaurant), S1668 [17MR]

Maine Manufacturing LLC: tribute, S480 [4FE]

National Small Business Week: observance (S. Res. 540), S4470 [26MY]

Native American Economic Advisory Council: establish (S. 3331), S3408 [7MY]

Obama, President: evaluation of administration, S6040, S6041 [21JY]

Oil Pollution Act: authorize advances from Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (S. 3473), S4785 [9JN]

———require polluters to pay the full cost of oil spills, S4107 [24MY], S4416 [26MY]

———require polluters to pay the full cost of oil spills (S. 3305), S3134 [5MY], S3684-S3686 [13MY], S3849-S3853 [18MY], S4176-S4179, S4199 [25MY], S4602 [7JN], S4896 [15JN]

———require polluters to pay the full cost of oil spills (S. 3305), unanimous-consent request, S3685 [13MY], S3852 [18MY], S4176, S4177 [25MY]

———require polluters to pay the full cost of oil spills (S. 3472), S5052, S5053 [17JN]

———require polluters to pay the full cost of oil spills (S. 3472), unanimous-consent request, S5053 [17JN]

OMB: provide a list of programs with unobligated stimulus funds and make recommendations to redirect such funds to assist displaced workers or spur job creation (S. 2981), S445 [2FE]

OSHA: authorize and expand the Voluntary Protection Programs to include more small businesses (S. 3257), S2643 [26AP]

Outer Continental Shelf: improve safety and preparedness surrounding offshore energy production and respond to the Deepwater Horizon blowout, explosion, and oil spill (S. 3763), S6848 [5AU]

Owensboro, KY: Owensboro Area Chamber of Commerce recipient of American Chamber of Commerce Executives (organization) Chamber of the Year award, S7440 [24SE]

Paris, ME: tribute to King's Hill Inn, S1166 [4MR]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: exempt small businesses from taxes and requirements of health care mandates, S1846-S1849 [23MR], S1960, S1994, S1995 [24MR]

———impact on insurance coverage, S8316 [1DE]

———impact on small businesses, S4027 [20MY], S5243, S5244 [22JN], S5661 [30JN]

———repeal taxable year limitation on small business tax credit, S2078 [25MR]

———waive penalty on hiring previously unemployed individuals, S1957, S1999 [24MR]

Portland, ME: tribute to Hugo's Restaurant, S6395 [28JY]

———tribute to Tilson Technology Management, Inc., S8055 [18NO]

SBA: allow aquaculture business disaster assistance loans, S7440 [24SE]

———defer payments of principal and interest on disaster loans relative to Deepwater Horizon oil spill, S4201 [25MY]

———enhance the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (H.R. 2965), House amendment, S10386 [16DE], S10504 [17DE], S10649-S10655, S10657, S10663-S10670, S10672, S10674, S10676-S10679, S10689 [18DE], S10732, S10737 [19DE], S11027 [22DE]

———establish a Native American entrepreneurial development program (S. 3534), S5442 [24JN]

———establish Veterans' Business Center program (S. 3394), S4087-S4090 [20MY]

———extend and expand certified development company/504 loan program, S5674 [30JN]

———extend and improve the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (S. 1233), S1642 [17MR]

———extend programs, S787 [25FE]

———extend Small Business Loan Guarantee Program, S5954 [15JY]

———give priority to businesses impacted by Deepwater Horizon oil spill when waiving interest payments on certain loans relative to damage caused by certain recent hurricanes, S4200 [25MY]

———improve programs for socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and establish a Small Business Surety Bond Pilot Program (S. 3458), S4623 [7JN]

———improve the Office of International Trade to expand small business exporting, S5423 [24JN]

———improve the Office of International Trade to expand small business exporting (S. 2862), S1639, S1640, S1641 [17MR]

———increase continued assistance eligibility, S5771 [13JY]

———increase loan limits and provide for low-interest refinancing for small businesses (S. 2869), S1639, S1642 [17MR]

———permit use of previously appropriated funds to extend Small Business Loan Guarantee Program (H.R. 4938), S2105 [25MR]

———reauthorize and improve entrepreneurial development programs (S. 1229), S1642 [17MR]

———reauthorize and improve the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (S. 4053), S11000 [22DE]

———reauthorize the National Small Business Tree Planting Program (S. 3279), S2804 [29AP]

———reform and improve the HUBZone program for small business concerns (S. 3020), S702 [23FE]

———remove limit on anticipated award price for contracts awarded under the procurement program for women-owned small business concerns (S. 3399), S4147 [24MY]

———require a study and report by the Office of Advocacy on the effects of proposed changes in patent law (S. 3089), S1313 [9MR]

———require small business training for Federal contracting officers (S. 3444), S4544 [27MY]

———temporarily designate as a HUBZone counties that are most affected by a recession (S. 3563), unanimous-consent request, S8329 [1DE]

———waive interest for certain loans relative to damage caused by certain recent hurricanes, S5666 [30JN]

———waive interest for certain loans relative to damage caused by certain recent hurricanes (S. 2986), S485 [4FE]

———waive non-Federal share requirement under certain programs, S5423 [24JN]

———waive non-Federal share requirement under certain programs (S. 3165), S2116 [25MR]

Sea Bags, Inc.: tribute, S2799 [29AP]

SEC: clarify definition of ``accredited investor'' to facilitate access by small businesses to capital, S3812-S3814, S3817 [17MY], S4063, S4064 [20MY]

Shain's of Maine (business): tribute, S4525 [27MY]

Ships and vessels: provide for the replacement or rebuilding of certain fishing vessels (S. 4014), S8600 [7DE]

Small Business Act: extend programs (H.R. 4508), S351 [28JA]

———extend programs (S. 3253), S2573 [22AP]

———extend programs (S. 3839), S7452 [24SE]

———improve contracting provisions, S5423, S5424 [24JN]

———improve contracting provisions (S. 2989), S433 [2FE], S486-S491 [4FE], S1642 [17MR]

———reauthorize (H.R. 5849), S6341 [27JY]

Small Business Development Center network: anniversary (S. Res. 638), S7366 [22SE]

Small Business Investment Act: extend programs (H.R. 4508), S351 [28JA]

———extend programs (S. 3253), S2573 [22AP]

———extend programs (S. 3839), S7452 [24SE]

———reauthorize (H.R. 5849), S6341 [27JY]

St. Joseph, MO: tribute to partnership between community leaders and Missouri Western State University relative to small business productivity and growth, S2372 [15AP]

Sterling Rope Co., Inc.: tribute, S8394 [2DE]

Sturtevant, Thomas: SBA Maine Small Business Person of the Year award recipient, S4080 [20MY]

Taxation: allow companies to utilize existing alternative minimum tax credits to create and maintain U.S. jobs, S1001 [3MR], S1151 [4MR]

———allow expensing of certain real property (S. 3083), S1230-S1233 [5MR], S5255 [22JN]

———allow Gulf Coast States' businesses affected by oil spill to carry back losses for 5 years, S6568 [2AU]

———allow self-employed individuals to deduct health insurance costs in computing self-employment taxes, S7151 [16SE]

———expand the tip tax credit to employers of cosmetologists and promote tax compliance in the cosmetology sector (S. 3430), S4444 [26MY], S4615 [7JN]

———extend Bush administration tax cuts and provide estate tax relief, S8671-S8673 [9DE]

———extend estate tax relief, S8761, S8776 [10DE], S8979 [14DE], S10245, S10247 [15DE]

———make certain middle class tax relief permanent, increase limits on small business expensing of certain depreciable assets, and extend alternative minimum tax relief, S8445-S8468, S8474 [3DE], S8513-S8535 [4DE], S8545, S8553 [6DE], S8596 [7DE], S8622, S8628-S8631, S8634 [8DE], S8669, S8701-S8708 [9DE], S8735-S8781 [10DE], S8838-S8847, S8849 [13DE], S8964-S8966, S8969-S8972, S8976-S8979, S8985, S8992-S8999, S9001-S9021, S9278 [14DE], S10237-S10241, S10244-S10256 [15DE], S10401-S10404 [16DE], S10423 [17DE]

———make permanent the increase in limitations on expensing of certain depreciable small business assets, S851, S854 [1MR], S987-S991, S995, S997 [3MR]

———permanently extend Bush administration tax cuts, S7476, S7481 [27SE]

———permanently extend Bush administration tax cuts and provide permanent alternative minimum tax and estate tax relief (S. 3773), S7004-S7007, S7048 [13SE], S7052, S7077 [14SE], S7106 [15SE], S7309 [22SE], S7678 [29SE], S7917 [17NO], S8009, S8020-S8023 [18NO], S8312-S8314, S8325-S8338 [1DE], S8475 [3DE]

———permanently extend Bush administration tax cuts and provide permanent alternative minimum tax and estate tax relief (S. 3975), S8108 [18NO], S8111 [19NO]

———permanently extend estate tax relief, S4640 [8JN], S5047-S5049 [16JN], S5250 [22JN], S6062, S6066 [21JY], S6178 [22JY], S7463 [27SE]

———provide a refundable credit for small business job growth (S. 2967), S346 [28JA]

———provide a temporary payroll increase tax credit for certain employers (S. 2973), S394-S396 [1FE], S430 [2FE]

———provide an employee payroll tax cut, S1142, S1151 [4MR]

———provide incentives for small business job creation, extend Build America Bonds program, and provide other infrastructure job creation tax incentives (H.R. 4849), unanimous-consent request, S7148, S7149 [16SE], S10247 [15DE]

———provide payroll tax relief for small businesses, S1643 [17MR]

———provide relief to improve competitiveness of U.S. corporations and small businesses and eliminate incentives to move jobs and profits overseas, S413 [2FE], S999-S1001 [3MR], S5069-S5071 [17JN]

———rates, S25 [20JA], S2333, S2340, S2344, S2367 [15AP], S6471 [29JY], S7117-S7119 [15SE], S8330-S8338 [1DE]

———repeal estate tax, S106 [21JA]

———retain estate tax, S5244-S5246 [22JN]

———retain estate tax with an immediate exemption increase and repeal new carryover basis rules (H.R. 4154), S5 [20JA]

———retention of newly hired employee payroll tax exemption by companies working with professional employer organizations, S1501 [15MR]

———S corporation self-employment payroll tax increase, S5240, S5241 [22JN]

Transportation Security Administration: require awarding of Government contracts to small and disadvantaged businesses, S1154 [4MR]

Trucking industry: increase effectiveness of Federal oversight of motor carriers by reforming regulations relative to licensed brokers (S. 3483), S4886 [14JN]

Washburn & Doughty Associates, Inc.: tribute, S2113 [25MR]

Wilder's Jewelry (business): tribute, S3356 [6MY]

Windsor, ME: tribute to Varney's Store, S2293 [14AP]

Workforce Investment Act: summer jobs program funding, S984-S986 [3MR], S1285, S1286, S1292 [9MR]

Reports

Estimated Health Care Savings Resulting From the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Geiger-Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, George Washington University, S1964 [24MR]

Federal Research Library—IRS Revenue Rulings: Tax Analysts (nonprofit organization), S5241 [22JN]

Obama Adminstration's Proposed 2.9% ``HI'' Surtax Would Harm the Economy and Lose Revenue: Stephen J. Entin, Gary Robbins, and Michael Schuyler, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation, S1961 [24MR]

Small Business Advocacy Review Panels (1997-2009), S3680 [13MY]

Reports filed

Big Oil Bailout Prevention Liability Act: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 3305) (S. Rept. 111-249), S6881 [5AU]

Consideration of H.R. 4849, Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Tax Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1205) (H. Rept. 111-455), H2215 [22MR]

Consideration of H.R. 4899, Disaster Relief and Summer Jobs Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1204) (H. Rept. 111-454), H2215 [22MR]

Consideration of H.R. 5297, Small Business Lending Fund Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1436) (H. Rept. 111-506), H4424 [14JN]

———Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1448) (H. Rept. 111-508), H4596 [16JN]

Consideration of H.R. 5486, Small Business Jobs Tax Relief Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1436) (H. Rept. 111-506), H4424 [14JN]

Consideration of Senate Amendment to H.R. 2847, Hiring Incentives To Restore Employment Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1137) (H. Rept. 111-426), H1167 [4MR]

Consideration of Senate Amendment to H.R. 2965, Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1764) (H. Rept. 111-681), H8519 [15DE]

Consideration of Senate Amendment to H.R. 4853, Middle Class Tax Relief Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1745) (H. Rept. 111-671), H7854 [1DE]

Consideration of Senate Amendment to H.R. 4853, Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1766) (H. Rept. 111-682), H8519 [15DE]

Consideration of Senate Amendment to H.R. 5297, Small Business Jobs Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1640) (H. Rept. 111-621), H6878 [22SE]

Consideration of Senate Amendments to H.R. 4899, Disaster Relief and Summer Jobs Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1500) (H. Rept. 111-522), H5500 [1JY]

Disaster Relief and Summer Jobs Act: Committee on Appropriations (Senate) (H.R. 4899) (S. Rept. 111-188), S3782, S3783 [14MY]

Environmental Crimes Enforcement Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 3466), S5438 [24JN]

Export Promotion Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 3084) (S. Rept. 111-289), S7033 [13SE]

Nomination of Marie Collins Johns To Be SBA Deputy Administrator: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (Senate), S4658 [8JN]

Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Tax Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 4849) (H. Rept. 111-447), H1743 [19MR]

Small Business Contracting Revitalization Act: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (Senate) (S. 2989) (S. Rept. 111-343), S7786 [29SE]

Small Business Export Enhancement and International Trade Act: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (Senate) (S. 2862) (S. Rept. 111-341), S7786 [29SE]

Small Business Job Creation and Access to Capital Act: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (Senate) (S. 2869) (S. Rept. 111-342), S7786 [29SE]

Small Business Lending Fund Act: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 5297) (H. Rept. 111-499), H4021, H4082 [27MY]

Supply Star Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 3396) (S. Rept. 111-319), S7507 [27SE]

Rulings of the Chair

Appropriations: making emergency supplemental for disaster relief, summer youth jobs programs, and SBA loans program, and rescind amounts from certain accounts (H.R. 4899), H2309 [24MR]

Statements

Small Business Jobs Act Amendment Process: Senator Reid, S6466 [29JY]

Summaries

Accomplishments of the 111th Congress, E2250 [22DE]

Bankruptcy Technical Corrections Act (H.R. 6198), H7159-H7161 [28SE], E1973 [18NO]

Tables

Disclosure of earmarks in H.R. 4899, emergency supplemental appropriations for military and stabilization activities, H6065 [27JY]

Estimated revenue effects of revenue provisions of Reid amendment to H.R. 2847, Hiring Incentives To Restore Employment Act, S721 [24FE]

Federal lands construction halted by furlough of Dept. of Transportation inspectors due to Senator Bunning filibuster of H.R. 4691, Temporary Extension Act, S914 [2MR]

Illustrative impact of Federal highway funding reduction by State, S916 [2MR]

Pay-as-you-go effects of H.R. 2847, Hiring Incentives To Restore Employment Act, H1165 [4MR]

Pay-as-you-go effects of H.R. 4691, Temporary Extension Act, H929 [25FE]

Pay-as-you-go effects of H.R. 4899, Disaster Relief and Summer Jobs Act, H5498 [1JY]

Pay-as-you-go effects of H.R. 5297, Small Business Jobs Act, S7150 [16SE]

Pay-as-you-go effects of H.R. 5297, Small Business Jobs and Credit Act, H4633 [17JN]

Pay-as-you-go effects of H.R. 5982, Small Business Tax Relief Act, H6566 [30JY]

Pay-as-you-go effects of S. 3473, Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund advances for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, S4785 [9JN]

Small Business Jobs Act sections and sponsors, S6467-S6470 [29JY]

Testimonies

Jobs Creation and Retention: Douglas W. Elmendorf, CBO, H1138 [4MR]

———Jeffrey Joerres, H1137 [4MR]

———Richard Berner, H1138 [4MR]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 328, Bayh-Dole Act anniversary on retention of intellectual property arising from federally funded research, H7410 [15NO]

H. Res. 1137, consideration of Senate amendment to H.R. 2847, Hiring Incentives To Restore Employment Act, H1115 [4MR]

H. Res. 1204, consideration of H.R. 4899, Disaster Relief and Summer Jobs Act, H2273 [24MR]

H. Res. 1205, consideration of H.R. 4849, Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Tax Act, H2219 [23MR]

H. Res. 1297, support goals and ideals of American Craft Beer Week, H3509 [18MY]

H. Res. 1436, consideration of H.R. 5486, Small Business Jobs Tax Relief Act and H.R. 5297, Small Business Lending Fund Act, H4447 [15JN]

H. Res. 1448, consideration of H.R. 5297, Small Business Lending Fund Act, H4602 [17JN]

H. Res. 1500, consideration of Senate amendments to H.R. 4899, Disaster Relief and Summer Jobs Act and pass H. Res. 1493, budget enforcement for 2011, H5342 [1JY]

H. Res. 1640, consideration of Senate amendment to H.R. 5297, Small Business Jobs Act, H6886 [23SE]

H. Res. 1745, consideration of Senate amendment to H.R. 4853, Middle Class Tax Relief Act, H7859 [2DE]

H. Res. 1764, consideration of Senate amendment to H.R. 2965, Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act, H8383 [15DE]

H. Res. 1766, consideration of Senate amendment to H.R. 4853, Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act, H8524, H8545 [16DE]

H.R. 2847, Hiring Incentives To Restore Employment Act, S804-S815 [25FE], H1125-H1136 [4MR]

H.R. 4508, Small Business Act and Small Business Investment Act programs extension, H400 [27JA]

H.R. 4691, Temporary Extension Act, H901-H903 [25FE]

H.R. 4849, Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Tax Act, H2281-H2285 [24MR]

H.R. 4853, Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act, H8585-H8593 [16DE]

H.R. 4899, Disaster Relief and Summer Jobs Act, S4573-S4583 [28MY], H2300 [24MR]

H.R. 4938, permit use of previously appropriated funds to extend SBA Small Business Loan Guarantee Program, H2414 [25MR]

H.R. 5297, Small Business Jobs Act, H6905-H6930 [23SE]

H.R. 5486, Small Business Jobs Tax Relief Act, H4469 [15JN]

H.R. 5551, require Dept. of the Treasury to make a certification when making purchases under the Small Business Lending Fund Program, H4682 [23JN]

H.R. 5849, Small Business Investment Act reauthorization, H6097 [27JY]

H.R. 5982, Small Business Tax Relief Act, H6470-H6474 [30JY]

H.R. 6191, include certain construction and land development loans in the definition of small business lending, H7081 [28SE]

H.R. 6198, Bankruptcy Technical Corrections Act, H7158 [28SE]

S. 2981, Reevaluate and Redirect the Stimulus Act, S445 [2FE]

S. 2986, Southeast Hurricanes Small Business Disaster Relief Act, S486 [4FE]

S. 2989, Small Business Contracting Revitalization Act, S487-S490 [4FE]

S. 3020, HUBZone Improvement Act, S702 [23FE]

S. 3024, Job Impact Analysis Act, S706 [23FE]

S. 3089, require a study and report by the SBA Office of Advocacy on the effects of proposed changes in patent law, S1313 [9MR]

S. 3165, Small Business Community Partner Relief Act, S2117 [25MR]

S. 3190, Small Business Programs Parity Act, S2163 [26MR]

S. 3253, Small Business Act and Small Business Investment Act programs extension, S2573 [22AP], H2895 [27AP]

S. 3331, Native American Economic Advisory Council Act, S3408 [7MY]

S. 3394, Strengthening Entrepreneurship for America's Veterans Act, S4087-S4090 [20MY]

S. 3395, Renewable Energy Market Access Program Act, S4091 [20MY]

S. 3396, Supply Star Act, S4145 [24MY]

S. 3399, Fairness in Women-Owned Small Business Contracting Act, S4147 [24MY]

S. 3420, Protecting Against Indebting Our Descendants Through Fully Offset Relief (PAID FOR) Temporary Extension Act, S4221 [25MY]

S. 3421, Protecting Against Indebting Our Descendants Through Fully Offset Relief (PAID FOR) Temporary Extension Act, S4222 [25MY]

S. 3430, Small Business Tax Equalization and Compliance Act, S4445 [26MY]

S. 3444, Small Business Training in Federal Contracting Certification Act, S4544 [27MY]

S. 3458, Section 8(a) Improvements Act, S4624 [7JN]

S. 3466, Environmental Crimes Enforcement Act, S4747 [9JN]

S. 3473, Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund advances for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, S4749, S4785 [9JN], H4336 [10JN]

S. 3523, Dept. of Commerce Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program reauthorization, S5321 [23JN]

S. 3534, Native American Small Business Assistance and Entrepreneurial Growth Act, S5442-S5444 [24JN]

S. 3712, Economic Growth and Jobs Protection Act, S6888 [5AU]

S. 3773, Tax Hike Prevention Act, S7042-S7044 [13SE]

S. 3839, Small Business Act and Small Business Investment Act programs extension, S7452 [24SE], H7090 [28SE]

S. 3946, Small Business Paperwork Relief Act, S7907 [15NO]

S. 4014, replacement or rebuilding of certain fishing vessels, S8600 [7DE]

S. 4053, SBA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program reauthorization and improvement, S11000-S11011 [22DE]

S. Res. 540, National Small Business Week, S4446, S4471 [26MY]

S. Res. 638, Small Business Development Center network anniversary, S7361, S7366 [22SE]

S. Res. 681, Global Entrepreneurship Week, S7979, S7992 [17NO]

Transcripts

Commercial Real Estate Markets Hearing: Representative Calvert With Sec. of the Treasury Geithner, H3181 [5MY]