Office of Advocacy

Testimony of Major L. Clark, IIIActing Chief CounselOffice of AdvocacyU.S. Small Business Administration U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and EntrepreneurshipandCommittee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Subcommittee on…

By Daniel Brown, Regulatory Economist Parked outside the Mobile Chamber of Commerce where the Office of Advocacy hosted a roundtable on the DOL’s Overtime Rule, there was a van for the local Fox 10 News. At first glance, it may have…

The U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Office of Advocacy (Advocacy) submits the following comments in response to the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed rule, which proposes to revise and update the regulations issued under…

By Claudia Rodgers, Senior Counsel The Office of Advocacy continued its efforts to hear directly from small businesses regarding federal regulations by hosting additional Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtables in Oklahoma City,…

By Marina DeWit, Region 9 Advocate According to the 2019 Small Business Profile data released by the Office of Advocacy, there are 30.7 million small businesses in the United States that employ 59.9 million people, which makes up 47.3…

The next U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy Environmental Roundtable will meet to discuss the following topics, beginning at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 30, 2019. The meeting will be held in Washington, D.C., at…

By Apollo Fuhriman, Region 10 Advocate In April, I met with county council members from Union and Wallowa Counties in Northeast Oregon. These elected officials described several significant long-term issues arising from federally owned…

Friday, May 17, 2019, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon U.S. Small Business Administration, Eisenhower (Concourse Level) Conference Room* Dear Small Business Representatives: We have scheduled the next Small Business Labor Safety…

On May 1, 2019, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE) published a proposed rule to streamline the decision-making process for granting test procedure waivers; the rule as proposed would…

On May 1, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for guidance under section 1400Z-2 of the Internal Revenue Code relating to capital gains that may be deferred as a result of investing in a…