Office of Advocacy

Please join us in Wyoming and Colorado as we continue our roundtable road trip across America to hear from you! Advocacy is hosting small business roundtables in order to hear, firsthand, from small businesses facing regulatory burdens.…

By Claudia Rodgers, Senior Counsel The Office of Advocacy traveled to the Midwest to meet with small business owners in Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois during the week of July 16, 2018 to find out which federal regulations are in need of…

By Zvi Rosen, Assistant Chief Counsel The International Trademark Association is one of the oldest and largest organizations of intellectual property professionals in the world and their annual meeting in Seattle – their 140th – brought…

By Claudia Rodgers, Senior Counsel Small businesses across Florida are concerned about the number of federal regulations impacting their operations and the burdensome compliance requirements that are weighing them down. These sentiments…

By Prianka Sharma, Assistant Chief Counsel On June 6, Assistant Chief Counsels Prianka Sharma and Jamie Belcore and Rural Advocate Joseph Knilans visited Yarborough Ranches in Seminole County, Fla., where they participated in a small…

By Nick Ivory, Regional Legislative and Regulatory Manager During Advocacy’s trip to Florida, we stopped by 81Bay Brewing Co. to learn about regulatory issues affecting small brewing companies. Founded just recently in 2016, the company…

By Thomas Rossomando, National Advocate for Manufacturing and Technology The Office of Advocacy recently attended a Regulatory Roundtable in Jacksonville, Fla.  Thanks to the hard work of Bruce LeVell, the Regional Advocate for Region 4,…

By Prianka Sharma, Assistant Chief Counsel On June 8, Assistant Chief Counsel Prianka Sharma and Regional Advocate Apollo Fuhriman traveled to Cedar Key, Florida, to hear from the aquaculture industry. After touring a hatchery, and going…

By Bruce Lundegren, Assistance Chief Counsel In 2012, Greg and Dellinda Rabinowitz had an idea— take old electronic materials and recycle them to recover their precious metals, like gold, silver, platinum, and copper. It was an ambitious…

By Nick Ivory, Regional Legislative and Regulatory Manager Black Hammock Adventures, a Central Florida attraction located just outside of Orlando, FL on the waterfront of Lake Jesup, is a neat little operation that provides airboat…