Florida roundtables

By Apollo Fuhriman, Region 10 Advocate At a recent Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtable held in Tampa, Florida, the Office of Advocacy heard from nearly 50 local small businesses about the weight of their federal regulatory burden.…

By Jamie Saloom, Assistant Chief Counsel On June 7th,  Advocacy heard from Jacksonville, Florida area small businesses. Participants shared many of the same concerns we heard from small businesses in Tampa and Orlando earlier in the…

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 and more were expressed by individual…

By Joe Knilans, Rural Affairs Advocate The Advocacy team recently visited Florida, not to surf and sit on the beach, but to hear from small business owners in Florida.  The Advocacy team stopped in Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville,…

By Apollo Fuhriman, Region 10 Advocate While many federal regulations start out with the best intentions, every additional layer creates not only additional work but frequently contradictory requirements. Where larger businesses have the…

By Jamie Saloom, Assistant Chief Counsel On June 6, 2018 Advocacy convened a regulatory reform roundtable just outside of Orlando, Florida. Small businesses told us that one-size-fits -all policies benefit big business at their expense.…

By Bruce Lundegren, Assistant Chief Counsel The Office of Advocacy recently visited Ameriscape Landscape Services in Florida’s Tampa Bay area following Advocacy’s Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtable. Advocacy was hosted by…

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 Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate The Office of Advocacy visited Citizens Bank of Florida in Orlando on June 6th to listen to the concerns of community bank leaders about federal regulation of small institutions in the financial services…