ASBL News

News SBA Loses Legal Battle Over PR Contract By StaffHispanicBusiness.com November 29, 2010The Small Business Administration (SBA) has lost a Freedom of information Act lawsuit, the American Small Business League (ASBL) reported Monday in a news release.The suit was...

News Small businesses shortchanged By Erik Engquist and Jeremy SmerdCrain's New York Business November 21, 2010The American Small Business League says New York's more than 2 million small businesses receive a fraction of the dollars they should be getting under a law...

News SBA Takes Closer Look At Federal Contractors By Meena ThiruvengadamWall Street Journal November 19, 2010The Small Business Administration is stepping up its efforts to ensure contractors aren't fudging the truth in order to win government deals.The SBA in fiscal...

News Monday Meter: THUMBS UP & DOWN — Great idea, but is it working? By StaffThe Times Record November 15, 2010In 1990, the Pentagon established the Comprehensive Subcontracting Plan Test Program, which was intended to offer 14 of the country’s largest defense...

News Obama Commission Suggests Folding SBA into Commerce Dept By BMM StaffBlue MauMau November 12, 2010The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, launched by President Barack Obama to find ways to cut federal deficit spending, has released its...

News Security Digest: Our list of security stories that matter, Nov. 1-7 By StaffCenter for Investigative Reporting November 10, 2010Welcome to another edition of Security Digest, folks. We try hard here to deliver news updates that haven’t mostly been pounded out...

News $200 Billion in federal spending cuts suggested By Doug CaldwellCentral Valley Business Times November 10, 2010•  UPDATED with reaction to SBA's future •  Includes merging SBA into Commerce Department •  Earmarks and other subsidies cut or eliminated That wail of...

News Business To Benefit From Shift To GOP By Steve ViukerBizBox by Slate November 4, 2010An informal survey by bizbox reveals a positive outlook for businesses under a GOP Congress. The following is a sample of voices. Lloyd Chapman President American Small Business...

News Small Business Smarts By Bonnie DurranceNorth Bay Biz November 2, 2010As small businesses continue to struggle, NorthBay biz talks with advocates and consultants who offer sound survival advice.  You’ll often hear it intoned, by politicians and economists alike,...

News American Small Business League sues DHS By StaffUPI November 1, 2010PETALUMA, Calif., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The American Small Business League is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over its contract awarding policies."The Department of Homeland Security is...

News Lawmakers seek probe on DoD subcontracting By Sean ReillyFederal Times October 29, 2010Five House members have asked the Government Accountability Office to look into whether a Defense Department program is accomplishing its mission of increasing small-business...

News Democrats call for investigation of Defense subcontracting By Robert BrodskyGovernment Executive October 27, 2010Five House Democrats have called on the Government Accountability Office to investigate a little-known Defense Department program designed to increase...

News GAO may probe validity of Pentagon small business subcontracting program By StaffCentral Valley Business Times October 26, 2010•  Comprehensive Test Program never evaluated in 20 years •  ‘Billions more in subcontracts to small businesses and create jobs across...

News Small-business advocate plans suit against DoD By StaffFederal Times October 26, 2010The American Small Business League last week said it plans to sue the Pentagon to force it to release information on a program intended to steer more contracts to small-business...

News After suspension, GTSI is back in business By Sean ReillyFederal Times October 24, 2010It took just 2½ weeks for the Small Business Administration to lift its suspension of GTSI Corp. But the aftershocks may last a lot longer.The Herndon, Va.-based information...

News Jason Altmire Honored as Most Anti-Small Business Member of Congress By Noel BrinkerhoffAllGov.com October 22, 2010 Democratic Congressman Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania is no friend of small businesses, says the American Small Business League, which selected the...

News Nuts and Bolts of the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010 By Vanessa CrossSuite101.com October 20, 2010The U.S. House passed the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010, H.R. 5297, which aims to help small businesses with tax breaks and loans...

News GTSI Is Back In Business: SBA Lifts Suspension of Major Contractor By Neil GordonProject on Government Oversight October 19, 2010 Well, that was quick.Less than three weeks after tech firm GTSI Corporation was suspended from federal contracting for allegedly...

News SBA vs American Small Business League in Lawsuit (update) By Steve ViukerBiz Box Slate October 15, 2010It's the SBA vs the ASBL and it's not baseball but it is hardball.United States District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong has denied a motion put forth by the...

News SBA vs American Small Business League in Lawsuit By Steve ViukerBiz Box Slate October 15, 2010A nasty legal battle is being fought on the small business front. The following is a statement by the American Small Business League:The ASBL suspects the SBA has spent...

News This Week in Small Business: Bankruptcies, Waivers and iPads By Gene MarksNew York Times October 11, 2010AND THE EXPERTS WEIGH IN. Scott A. Shane of Case Western University says that reducing uncertainty is the ticket for economic growth. Gary Shapiro, president...

News GTSI suspension a wake-up call: Experts ask if more will follow By Sean ReillyFederal Times October 11, 2010The suspension of GTSI Corp. from future federal business over allegations that it used front companies to circumvent federal acquisition rules is sending...

News Editorial: Overhaul small-biz contracting By StaffFederal Times October 10, 2010The Small Business Administration's surprising decision this month to suspend tech vendor GTSI points out why federal contracting privileges granted to small businesses — and...

News Suspension of IT contractor has roots in 2008 bid protest By Robert BrodskyGovernment Executive October 7, 2010The suspension last week of one of the government's largest vendors can be traced to a controversial 2008 Homeland Security Department contract that...

News GTSI Kept Winning Federal Small Business Contracts, Even Though It Admitted It's Not a Small Business By Chris GunnThe Exception October 7, 2010In 1999, GTSI, a Top 50 government contractor reported that it was no longer a small business for the purposes of...

News Commentary: Federal small business tax breaks are not enough By Lloyd ChapmanWashington Post October 4, 2010Last week, President Obama signed into law measures aimed at providing billions of dollars in tax breaks and lending for small businesses. The American...

News SBA contract errors are result of deception By Lloyd ChapmanFederal Times October 3, 2010In 2003, the Government Accountability Office uncovered more than 5,300 large businesses that were receiving federal small-business contracts. An analysis of the most recent...

News Alaska-connected GTSI cut off from new federal contracts By Robert O'Harrow Jr.Washington Post October 2, 2010 Federal officials on Friday suspended one of the nation's largest government contractors from receiving new work, alleging that the Northern Virginia...

News Critics Blast Theft of U.S. Work by Big Business By Joe MontThe Street September 28, 2010BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Don't count Lloyd Chapman of the American Small Business League among those applauding the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010."What Obama calls...