This bill is sorely needed to protect small businesses from an unfair, duopolistic market, and ensure they can compete.

Congress needs to protect and support the SBA’s critical loan programs and increase the authorization level for SBA loans in order to prevent unnecessary stalls in lending.

NSBA fully supports efforts to collect legally owed tax revenues, but not at the undue expense of the privacy and integrity of honest, hard-working entrepreneurs.

NSBA urges Congress to allow self-employed individuals to fully-deduct the cost of their health insurance—something all other business owners and employees are allowed to do.

Our political leaders must do everything in their power to ensure that our tax laws support small-business growth and economic innovation.

NSBA continues to urge the small-business community to communicate with the DOL regarding their experiences and ideas for improvements and protections against excessive wage gaps.

EXIM should continue to strive to exceed its mandates of supporting small business exporting efforts and reestablishing its reliability as a resource to address inabilities to access traditional credit or financing.

NSBA urges the Senate and the SBA Administrator to swiftly fill all remaining vacant political appointments.

Lawmakers MUST act to ensure parity in tax rates between the smallest businesses and global corporations.

While NSBA supports efforts to stop money laundering, this law is not just bad policy, it is unconstitutional. #CTA #NOTtheWAY

It's been nearly 30 years since the last WHCSB.

Congress must ensure that it allocates the financial resources required for Advocacy, an office devoted solely to serving America’s small businesses.

More improvements should be done to further provide small businesses with more flexibility with respect to the tools and resources.

Lawmakers and regulators should make every attempt to streamline regulations.

A free and open Internet helps prevent unfair pricing practices by ISPs.

NSBA urges Congress to advance legislation to protect small businesses and Internet entrepreneurs.

Any comprehensive immigration legislation must address the concerns of the small-business community.

Congress should amend the outdated FLSA.

NSBA supports fair labor, economic growth and job creation.

The Fair Tax is a fair, efficient, transparent, and intelligent solution to the frustration and inequity of the current tax system.

Lawmakers should clarify and ease costly and complex registration requirements on small businesses.

Legislation must consider the burden on small business.

It is imperative that the U.S. moves towards a simpler, fairer tax system.

Relief from the massive federal regulatory burden can be achieved.

Congress should permanently authorize and increase the funding levels for the SBIR and STTR programs.

Avoiding economically disastrous growth in the national debt will require an aggressive combination of reduced spending and increased revenue.

Policymakers must ensure small-business hiring is not hampered by unnecessary and unfair regulations.

Employees and employers should be able to determine allocations for themselves.

Minimum wage increases and mandates affect small businesses when it comes to labor costs.

True relief can only be achieved through a broad reform of the current health care system.

Lawmakers MUST act to ensure parity in tax rates between the smallest businesses and global corporations.

Unproductive partisan politics should be put aside to truly bring change and grow opportunities for small businesses.

Policymakers must ensure that programs and pandemic-related program changes are not closed if the need for lending still exists.

NSBA supports reasonable reforms and policies that will further promote and facilitate small-business participation in the federal marketplace.

The very tools that make small businesses competitive have also put them in the crosshairs of cyber attackers.

The U.S. must reassert its position as an international leader in innovation with smart fixes.

The U.S. has the most open markets in the world, yet our products and services still face barriers abroad.

Congress must work together to compromise on solutions to avoid government shutdowns.

Ensuring Small-Business participation in the digital economy must be a priority in D.C.

Credit card processing fees should not be a fatal cost to Small Business.

Lawmakers are at an impasse on an approach to implementing a productive legislative framework.

Weakened patent laws continue to undermine the U.S. patent system.

Equity Capital and Crowdfunding empower Small Businesses by offering alternative funding sources.

The current federal income tax system is broken—unfair, overly complex, and almost impossible for most Americans to understand.

Despite some short-term improvements made in recent years, long-term debt challenges remain, and in the coming decades, the debt will squeeze budgetary resources that are vital to our economic success and competitiveness will be stymied.

E-commerce provides businesses with access to much larger markets, but it also complicates even the simplest of retail transactions.

Reducing the so-called tax gap has long been proposed as one way of increasing federal revenues without increasing tax rates.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) which was enacted late-2017 is now in effect, but key portions of it are only temporary - specifically those that help the majority of America’s Small Businesses.

Starting in 2022, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) requires businesses to amortize Research and Development (R&D) expenses over a five-year period.

A Small Business that makes good hiring decisions tends to have higher productivity and lower turnover, which positively affects the bottom line.

When a Small-Business owner is considering his or her retirement needs and those of his employees, there are myriad different plans to consider with countless requirements and stipulations.

In recent years, the issue of paid family leave has garnered attention from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

In 2019, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a rule that made it so salaried workers earning less than $35,568 annually would automatically be owed overtime pay.

Small-Business owners, as well as their employees, are faced with the challenging task of juggling their personal lives with their careers.

With the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to ensure safe and healthful working conditions for workers.

Small Businesses, ravaged by a sluggish economy and lingering effects of the pandemic, are struggling to keep their doors open and keep employees on payroll.

There are a number of policy initiatives being considered by Congress and the agencies that are designed to promote increased unionization.

No Administration since 1995 has assembled a White House Conference on Small Business (WHCSB).

As a result of growing partisanship, Congress is not doing the job it was elected to do.

Many Small-Business owners have expressed concern that technology regulations could harm their businesses and reported that their businesses would face challenges complying with proposed AI regulations at the state level.

In an increasingly digital world, governments globally at all levels are enacting internet privacy rules proving to be complex and burdensome, particularly for many Small Businesses.

Unnecessary and/or duplicative regulations disproportionately impact Small Businesses, leaving many operations struggling to survive.

With the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), Congress chose to make many of the individual provisions temporary to limit the revenue cost of the TCJA to a level consistent with the overall constraint on the 10-year revenue loss in the Congressional Budget Resolution.

Free Trade Agreements enable Small Businesses to access global markets and compete internationally.

An important tool used by a majority of Small Businesses, action is needed on 199A.

The Export-Import Bank provides certainty for Small-Business exporters supporting economies worldwide.

The Small-Business community needs substantial relief from health care costs. Over the last two decades, health care costs have been steadily increasing and, absent reform, will continue to do so at an unsustainable pace.

Supply chain resiliency and Small-Business exporting must be a priority to support opportunities for Small Business to engage and lead trade.

More can and should be done to ensure fairness for Small Business and firms in the federal marketplace.

Small-Business owners stand to be significantly impacted by various broad immigration reform proposals, specifically as they relate to availability of workers and compliance with new and/or existing rules and regulations.

Capital is the lifeblood of Small Business and Small-Business growth.

Small Businesses are relying on information technology and digital tools more than ever.

The considerable free rein federal agencies have over interpreting and enforcing laws passed by Congress is too often done in a way that harms Small Businesses.

More can and should be done to ensure fairness for Small Business and firms in the federal marketplace.

Self-employed individuals, unlike large corporations, cannot fully deduct the cost of their health insurance as a business expense.

More can and should be done to ensure fairness for Small Business and firms in the federal marketplace.

More must be done to ensure the long-term stability and viability of SBIR/STTR programs.

The Small Business Administration (SBA) plays a crucial role in helping Small Businesses start, run, and grow.