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The House version of the economic stimulus package includes tax incentives for small businesses to invest in new equipment at a time when capital spending plans are at their lowest [...]

The Small Business Administration plans to expand its disaster loan program to cover all small businesses impacted by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, regardless of where they are located. The [...]

The post-Sept. 11 era of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill ended after only a month, at least on the House side. The tone changed after House Republicans refused to consider a [...]

Rodney Hunt started RS Information Systems in 1992 with $5,000, an idea and an edge. His idea: Combining information technology with management consulting. His edge: As an African-American, Hunt qualified [...]

Despite objections from the AFL-CIO, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has delayed by one year the effective date of recordkeeping requirements related to musculoskeletal disorders. As a result, employers [...]

After 30 years as a travel agent, Bonnie Adams may soon go out of business. 'I have at best three weeks left,' says Adams, owner of the Lewiston Travel Bureau, [...]

A 33 percent increase in health care premiums is eating into Slaton Monument. Inc.'s profits this year, and there is nothing that owner Linda Conner can do about it. The [...]

A new report from the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine concludes that the number of Americans without health insurance will increase because of rising premiums; a weakening economy [...]

Corporations will be less likely in the future to lease large blocks of space in downtown office towers and more likely to spread their employees around several suburban locations. So [...]

Government-supported research helped Nuvera Fuel Cells Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., make technological breakthroughs that promise to make electric cars more practical and generate cleaner electricity for homes and businesses. But [...]

Don Lloyd Williams, president of Princeton Medical Enteprises, says his Marietta, Ga.-based health care technology company can manage international trade's logistical and currency challenges. Trade barriers like tariffs are harder [...]

The 19 federal agencies involved in international trade are reviewing their programs to see what they can do to encourage more small businesses to export. 'That, in fact, is the [...]

House appropriators added $186 million to the Bush administration's 2002 budget request for the Small Business Administration, eliminating the need for the agency to raise fees for its flagship 7(a) [...]

Hector Barreto Jr. says his parents built a successful restaurant business in Kansas City, Mo., because they had ganas -- 'an unrelenting desire to accomplish a great goal.' That same [...]

Creditors are close to victory in their four-year fight to toughen the nation's bankruptcy laws. The Senate cleared a procedural roadblock thrown up by bill opponents July 17 and sent [...]

Small business faces a classic Washington dilemma in the battle over the Patients' Bill of Rights: The only way to get something they want is to accept something they don't. [...]

The National Commission on Entrepreneurship hopes local officials will use data it has collected on the number of high-growth companies in every region of the country to improve their business [...]

Entrepreneurs will get more attention from the new chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee, who added 'Entrepreneurship' to the panel's name. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., says the name change [...]

The Small Business Administration selected seven new venture capital companies to invest in small businesses in low-income areas. This new program, initiated by the Clinton administration, may be short-lived, however. [...]

There will not be any major cuts in business taxes this year, says Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont. The $1.35 trillion tax cut passed by Congress a month [...]

A survey of 20,000 people who purchased health insurance on the Internet found that individuals can buy affordable and comprehensive coverage on their own. The average annual premiums for individual [...]

By 2006, inventors will have to wait more than three years to receive a patent after they file an application with the Patent and Trademark Office. This is 'unacceptable,' says [...]

For five years, small-business owners have traveled to Washington, D.C., to ask Congress to rein in Federal Prison Industries, an inmate labor program that has become a $546 million business [...]

As the Senate prepared to vote on managed care reform legislation, health care industry CEOs launched a campaign to persuade Congress to take action on what they see as a [...]

The number of federal contract opportunities published in Commerce Business Daily has fallen 9 percent over the past six years, according to Eagle Eye Publishers Inc., a company that tracks [...]

Minorities held 30.4 percent of the federal government's permanent jobs in 2000, up from 30 percent in 1999, according to a new study by the Office of Personnel Management. But [...]

The Family and Medical Leave Act was the landslide winner as the government regulation that gives human relations professionals the biggest headache, according to a survey conducted by HRnext.com. More [...]

Maria Coakley David testified before Congress in March about how the estate tax threatens the health of C.J. Coakley Co., a Falls Church, Va.-based interior construction company that was founded [...]

The Patent and Trademark Office responded like a private-sector employer when faced with a shortage of skilled labor: It raised salaries to attract and retain experienced employees. But unlike a [...]

Small businesses may not get much help from Congress this year on coping with double-digit increases in the cost of health insurance. A provision to allow the self-employed to deduct [...]

The tax bill did not include a top priority of the nation's high-tech industry: making the research and development tax credit permanent. But that credit does not expire until 2004, [...]

The National Association of Manufacturers is pleased that President Bush has appointed a former member of the House Judiciary Committee, 'a locus of expertise on intellectual property issues,' as director [...]

The Small Business Administration has done little to help veterans start and grow their own businesses despite a 1999 law that called for the agency to provide them with technical, [...]

Clear the way, clear the way,' commanded 98-year-old Sen. Strom Thurmond as he approached a clump of reporters blocking the hall outside the Senate chamber. The reporters stepped aside so [...]

The tax bill passed by Congress kills the estate tax in 2010, but the tax could rise from its grave in 2011 unless a future Congress drives a stake through [...]

Democratic control of the Senate makes it more likely that small business lobbyists will lose their fight against managed care reform legislation that would allow patients to sue their HMOs. [...]

Lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Business shook the hand of Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., after the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approved a bill that would exempt [...]

The Small Business Administration could have a new administrator on board by next month now that President Bush has sent the nomination of Hector Barreto Jr. to the Senate. The [...]

Opponents of estate tax repeal say small businesses were ill-served by their Washington lobbyists, who insisted on eliminating the tax, even if it takes 10 years, instead of immediately raising [...]

The clout small businesses wield in Washington is demonstrated by Fortune magazine's latest list of Washington's most powerful lobbying groups, which ranks the National Federation of Independent Business as No. [...]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent $9.66 million lobbying the federal government during the first six months of 2000, beating out the American Medical Association for the No.1 ranking on [...]

The Federal Trade Commission endorsed legislation to allow consumers to opt out of receiving unsolicited commercial e-mail and impose penalties on businesses that ignore their wishes. Under a bill introduced [...]

The Bush administration wants to allow businesses to compete for a variety of services now provided by more than 400,000 federal employees. 'We're serious about it,' says Mitch Daniels, director [...]

The Senate approved brownfields reform legislation by a 99-0 vote; pleasing everyone from the real estate industry to the nation's mayors. The bill provides local governments with $150 million a [...]

The Small Business Administration streamlined its electronic application for the Hubzone program so that businesses can be certified for the government contracting program more quickly. The upgrade features pop-up menus [...]

They may not agree on ergonomics, but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO do agree that Congress should help the 43 million Americans who do not have health [...]

President Bush ended the business community's long battle to stop OSHA's ergonomics regulation by signing legislation that repeals the rule, which would have required employers to establish programs to reduce [...]

The House unanimously passed legislation aimed at reducing paperwork requirements for small businesses. The bill calls for the Office of Management and Budget to publish an annual list of all [...]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published its first set of patent applications under a 1999 law that made significant changes in the patent system. Nearly 50 patent applications in [...]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed Freedom of Information Act requests in 21 states for all documents related to the hiring of outside counsel in their lawsuits against tobacco companies. [...]