Region 6

Written by Janea Jamison, Region 6 Advocate For many small businesses, 2022 was a year of reflection. While many small businesses made various adjustments due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States experienced a…

By Janea Jamison, Region 6 Advocate I recently visited Oklahoma to talk small businesses and share the Office of Advocacy’s work. My visit included stakeholder site visits with the Tulsa Regional Chamber Congressional Forum, and…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate The Office of Advocacy recently visited Houma, Louisiana to participate in a small business regulatory forum. An hour southwest of New Orleans, Houma is the largest city along the south-central…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate There are a quarter million small businesses in the state of Arkansas, and more than 99 percent of the state’s firms are small, according to the Office of Advocacy’s 2019 Arkansas Small Business…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate The Office of Advocacy visited every corner of Region 6 in 2019. We traveled to places from the top of the region in Oklahoma City and Fayetteville, to the bottom in Brownsville, Texas. We hit stops…

The Office of Advocacy visited San Antonio and Austin, Texas, on September 5-6 to meet with small business leaders and hear about their federal regulatory concerns. The Small Business Development Center at Texas State University hosted…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate There are 150,000 small businesses in New Mexico, comprising 99% of all firms in the state. They employ a third of a million people, or about 55% of the employees in the state. To learn more about…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate I am pleased to report that progress is being made in my home state of Louisiana to protect small businesses from burdensome regulations imposed by state government agencies. The Louisiana State…

By Bruce Lundegren, Assistant Chief Counsel The Office of Advocacy has hosted numerous Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtables across the country to hear directly from small businesses and other small entities about which federal…