Region 6

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 Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate I had the pleasure of meeting with dozens of groups of small business owners in 2018 in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Gathering several businesses in a room and hearing from…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate The Office of Advocacy traveled extensively throughout Region 6 in 2018, listening to the regulatory concerns of small businesses in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. We were honored…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate The Office of Advocacy was honored to participate in Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week on November 13 and 14. The eighth annual “BREW” conference featured a whole lot more than coffee. It was a series of…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate The Office of Advocacy returned to Tulsa, Oklahoma on October 29 and October 30 to meet with Native American small business owners and companies that conduct business with American Indian tribes.…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate I previously wrote about comments we received from Lubbock regarding agriculture, livestock, pesticides, ranching, trucking and trade. Let’s examine additional comments that we received from other…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate  The Office of Advocacy held a small business regulatory forum on the campus of Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas on August 30. Two dozen small business leaders attended the event…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate The Office of Advocacy conducted a small business regulatory forum in Lubbock, Texas on August 29. The Five Star Lubbock Chamber of Commerce hosted the event in conjunction with the SBA Lubbock-West…

By: Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate The Office of Advocacy recently visited the Indian Country Business Summit in Norman, Oklahoma, to hear from area small businesses about their federal regulatory burdens. Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate,…

By: Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate  The Office of Advocacy recently conducted two small business forums in Lake Charles, Louisiana to find out what regulatory burdens smaller firms in the area face on a daily basis. A company that…