Regulation

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 Christine Myers, Region 2 Small Business Advocate In the News, a plaque company based in Tampa, Fla., has been in business for more than 31 years, but it took the break-up of the Bell System to make it thrive. How could the break-up…

Please join us in Iowa 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. Come tell us…

Please join us in The Sunshine State for another round of roundtables. Advocacy is hosting small business roundtables in order to hear, firsthand, from small businesses facing regulatory burdens. Come tell us which federal agency…

By Nick Ivory, Regional Legislative and Regulatory Manager Small business owners turned up the heat on burdensome regulations during a small business roundtable hosted by Sigma Thermal, a manufacturing company that designs, engineers,…

By Nick Ivory, Regional Legislative and Regulatory Manager Advocacy visited Flory Industries, a small, third generation, family-owned business located in Salida, Calif., that offers products world-wide for harvesting tree nuts like…

By Nick Ivory, Regional Legislative and Regulatory Manager Small business owners grilled federal barriers to small business growth during a roundtable hosted by Samuel T. Jackson, entrepreneur and owner of multiple Grub Burger locations…