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  • .Obama administration helps large companies compete with small business
  • 'Abuse' exposed in US small business contracting schemes
  • 'Huge Opportunity' at SBA
  • 'I just want to know who made the bad loans' Cramer blasts small business loan program
  • 'Iraqi first' policy hurts N.J. firm
  • 'Small' Business List has Mistakes
  • 'Trust me' is Federal Policy on Policing Preference Fraud
  • "It's not what you think it is": The government's bailout loans are failing small businesses like mine, says Farmgirl Flowers' CEO
  • "Little" Goes a Long Way
  • "Small Business" Losing Big on Contracts
  • "The Big Guys Get Bailed Out": Restaurants Vie for Relief Funds
  • “Trump is Setting the SBA Up for Failure,” says Lloyd Chapman, American Small Business League Founder and President – March 31, 2025
  • “Trump Kills Programs for Minority Small Businesses,” says Lloyd Chapman, American Small Business League President – April 1, 2025
  • #GetRealSBA: Public Citizen Calls Out SBA Misrepresentation of Small Business Goal Achievements
  • $10,000 reward offered for small-biz list
  • $200 Billion in federal spending cuts suggested
  • 25-year-old 'test program' shields federal contract data, blocks fines
  • 25-year-old 'test program' shields federal contract data, blocks fines
  • 4 Biggest Government Spending Myths Debunked
  • 60 percent of small-business contracts go to large firms, analysis finds
  • A Battle Over Venture Capital for Small Businesses
  • A Cheater's Guide to Winning $500 Million in Government Contracts
  • A conference where you're not invited
  • A conference where you're not invited
  • A contracting loophole denies small businesses the chance to land subcontracting opportunities with the Defense Department
  • A quarter century later, Pentagon's test program for small businesses still untested
  • A quarter century later, Pentagon's test program for small businesses still untested
  • A Small Business Whistle-Blower Gets a Fraud Settlement
  • A Small Mistake
  • A Storm Brewing at the SBA?
  • Act seeks to end diversion of small business contracts
  • Administration Closes SBA Veterans Office
  • Advocacy Group Accuses SBA of Misapplying Law on Small Business Set-Asides
  • Advocacy group sues government over contract data
  • Advocacy group sues SBA
  • Advocates irked by last-minute forum call
  • Advocates taking sides over size standards.
  • Affirmative Action Under Assault
  • After suspension, GTSI is back in business
  • Agencies Counted Big Firms As Small
  • Agencies fall short of small business contracting goals
  • Agencies lower bar to meet small-business contracting goals
  • Agencies still miss small-business goals
  • Agency critic not letting up
  • Agency Lies About How Much It's Helping Small Businesses
  • Agency Lies About How Much It's Helping Small Businesses
  • Agency to Require Merged Companies to Prove They're Small
  • Alabama Congressman Parker Griffith Claims Loophole to Give Billions to His Top Campaign Contributors was 'Unintended'
  • Alaska native companies on thin ice
  • Alaska-connected GTSI cut off from new federal contracts
  • American Small Business League Announces a Problem Obama's New Small Business Agenda
  • American Small Business League continues fight against the federal government
  • American Small Business League cries foul on Obama team
  • American Small Business League Criticizes President's Small Business Policies
  • American Small Business League not satisfied with Obama's small business stance
  • American Small Business League Slams "Bailout Bill"
  • American Small Business League sues DHS
  • American Small Business League Sues DOD Over Small-Business Contracts
  • American Small Business League Sues Navy Over Transparency
  • American Small Business League Sues U.S. DOD Over Small-Business Contracts
  • American Small Business League Welcomes Bruce de Torres as Director of Communications – March 11, 2025
  • American Small Business League: New Task Forces Could Do More Harm Than Good
  • American Small Business League: Obama 'short Change'
  • Amid Controversy, SBA Pushes Forward with Gulf Coast Loans
  • Among Small-Business Advocates, Reaction to President's Plan Is Mixed
  • Among Small-Business Advocates, Reaction to President's Plan Is Mixed
  • An Open Letter to Joe Sestak
  • An unusual battle: big business vs. small business
  • Analysis: $300M, no-bid Guard contract
  • Angst about SBA reclassification of small businesses misses the point: Editorial Agenda 2014
  • Annual Recertification Is Debated Again
  • Annual recertification rule draws fire.
  • Answering the bailout call
  • Apparent disconnect on contractor lawsuit is business as usual
  • Appeals Court Rules Against Small-Business Group In Transparency Case Over Pentagon Contracts
  • Are We Sending The Wrong Message to Small Business?
  • Arizona Business Leaders Praise President's Focus On Technology And Innovation
  • ASBL attacks Bush record on small business
  • ASBL Files Federal Suit Over SBA's Small Business Scorecard
  • ASBL Files Federal Suit Over SBA's Small Business Scorecard
  • ASBL renews attack over 'billion dollar contracting fraud'
  • ASBL statement on Obama's State of the Union Address
  • ASBL wants Congress to change language of new small business bill
  • ASBL: SBA Will Start Damage Control
  • ASBL: The Obama Adminstration's First Year Short Changes Small Businesses
  • ASBL: The Obama Adminstration's First Year Short Changes Small Businesses
  • Ask the Chamber of Commerce: Why Is Too Much Not Enough?
  • Audio Clip: Lloyd Chapman on the Michael Jackson Show
  • AUDIO: Fraud rampant in federal small business contracting says ASBL
  • Banks receiving government aid cut loans
  • Barack Obama breaks first campaign promise by dropping oil tax
  • Barack Obama Is Doing My Job; Why America Needs Him to Do His
  • Barreto joins Schwarzenegger team
  • Barreto saga good for lots of e-mails
  • Barreto: no "wholesale" fraud in contract reporting.
  • Battle Between a Small-Business Advocate and the SBA Gets Personal
  • Bay Area Democrats Generally Happy With State Of Union Speech
  • Bechtel denies complaint
  • Bechtel Gets $128 Million "Small Business" Contract
  • Behind the media contractors' veil
  • Being a Voice For Small Business
  • Bernanke Policies Ignore Nation's Top Job Creators
  • Best way to get a federal contract? Be working with the feds already
  • Bidding against a small business that's outgrown that status
  • Big Business Wolves Pose in Small Biz Clothes
  • Big Businesses Land Small-Biz Pacts
  • Big businesses still getting contracts meant for small businesses, SBA's inspector general reports
  • Big businesses winning contracts meant for small ones, groups charge
  • Big companies cash in on fed contracts
  • Big companies cashed in on fed contracts geared for small business
  • Big Companies in Small-Biz Clothing
  • Big companies listed as small in feds' records
  • Big contractors for not-so-small small businesses
  • Big Firms Cash In on SBA Contracts
  • Big Firms Get SBA's Small Business
  • Big firms listed as small businesses
  • Big firms listed as small businesses - Error leads feds to overstate contracts for little companies
  • Big Firms Listed as Small Businesses in Federal Contract Database
  • Big Firms Muscle In on 'Small Business' Contracts
  • Big Firms Winning Small Business Contracts
  • Big guys took small-biz deals, CPI says
  • Big Things in Small Packages
  • Big Wins for March 7, 2011
  • Big-business boondoggle
  • Bill could open door for venture capital firms
  • Bill In Congress Would Promote Small Business, Economic Stimulus
  • Bill Introduced to Restrict Small Business Contracting
  • Bill Would Bolster Federal Contracts For Entrepreneurs
  • Bill would increase oversight of small-business contracts
  • Bill would let firms that outgrow their size status retain set-aside contracts
  • Bill would let franchises win small-business contracts
  • Biz Groups Give President The Biz
  • Buffalo's SBA office hiring temps to assist with Texas disaster claims
  • Burr Bill Harms Small Business
  • Burr bill would restructure SBA, Commerce and Labor
  • Buscan proteger a los pequeños
  • Bush Admin Faces Lawsuit For Secret Contract Fraud Study
  • Bush Admin Tries to Cover Up Repeated Failures to Meet Targets for Small Business Contracts
  • Bush Leaves Legacy of Fraud and Abuse At Small Business Administration
  • Bush names executive at Illinois firm to head SBA
  • Bush Names Small Business Administration Chief
  • Bush's pick for SBA gets mixed reviews
  • Business competition on an uneven field
  • Business group president says government not accurate in small business spending
  • Business group slams UTC, others
  • Business Intelligence
  • Business League Assails SBA 'Loophole'
  • Business To Benefit From Shift To GOP
  • Businesses, Pentagon agree this program doesn't work. Congress saved it anyway.
  • Businesses, Pentagon agree this program doesn't work. Congress saved it anyway.
  • California group forces SBA to disclose documents
  • California Senate committee approves pre-qualification bill
  • California VAR Alleges HP Misappropriates Trade Secrets
  • Caltrans may ditch program for minority contractors
  • Can Sandy Baruah save the SBA?
  • Can This Man Turn Around the SBA?
  • Cardin Opposes Trump Cuts to SBA Budget
  • Case of the Missing Set-Aside
  • Central Valley congressmen co-sponsor small business bill
  • Chairwoman Velázquez on Trump Budget for 2021 | Small Business Committee
  • Changing Guard Bodes Well for Small Business -- So Far
  • Chief defends SBA's existence
  • Chip Cravaack Responds To Passage Of Small Business Jobs And Credit Act
  • CIT Bankruptcy Will Prolong, Deepen the Recession
  • CIT failure could unleash slew of bankruptcies
  • CIT Reportedly Close to Getting Federal Aid
  • Claim; New SBA Policy Will Divert Billions to Big Business
  • Claim: SBA doesn't know who got billions in federal deals last year
  • Claim: Small business federal contracts hit new low
  • Claims Feds Misclassify Small Businesses Dropped
  • Commentary: Bush's Overall Arrogance and Dismissiveness Have Rubbed Off on His Agencies
  • Commentary: Don't abolish incentives for minority-owned contractors
  • Commentary: Don't abolish incentives for minority-owned contractors
  • Commentary: Federal small business tax breaks are not enough
  • Commentary: SBA's data cannot be trusted
  • Commentary: SBA's data cannot be trusted
  • Commentary: The real GSA scandal
  • Companies miscast in federal database
  • Companies Weigh In on Definition of 'Small' Firm
  • Congress Appears Poised To Gut Government Contracts For Small Business
  • Congress gets contracting 'transparency' bill
  • Congress gets contracting 'transparency' bill
  • Congress may stop some start-up funds
  • Congress Needs To Add Small Business Protection To Lending Bill, ASBL Says
  • Congress plans to vote today on small business legislation increasing amount of government work
  • Congress probes management problems at Small Business Administration
  • Congress should defeat plan to hurt small businesses
  • Congress wants to clobber my company
  • Congresswoman Hahn Amendment Calls for Investigation into Small Business Contracts Unfairly Awarded to Fortune 500 Companies
  • Consolidation hindering small firms' opportunities
  • Contentious Debate Looms Over Small Business Venture Capital
  • Contract cancellation pulls rug out from under Bethesda small business
  • Contract cons can exploit Transportation delay
  • Contract debate swirls
  • Contracting Review Touches Off Concerns
  • Contractor Certification, Reporting Rule Is Near
  • Contractor List Calls Dole, Verizon Small
  • Contractor to Repay Government for Scheme
  • Contracts database short on info, long on problems
  • Contracts worth billions set aside; who qualifies?
  • Corporate giants get benefits of being small
  • COSMOS'S WORLD: Small Businesses, big questions
  • Court Blocks Peek Into Small Biz Contracting Program
  • Court Hurts Small Biz Transparency: Watchdog
  • Court tosses case against SBA for awarding billions in small business contracts to Fortune 500 firms
  • Covert operation: In defense bill, Congress quietly passes small-business legislation
  • Credit still hard to get for retailers
  • Critics Blast Theft of U.S. Work by Big Business
  • Critics question SBA's list of top 100 small-business contractors
  • Critics question SBA's list of top 100 small-business contractors
  • Critics: SBA hiding truth on small-business contracts
  • Crusader Against Size Fraud Forms SmallBiz Advocacy Group
  • Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca Named To Prosecute Rare Freedom Of Information Trial Against Department Of Defense And Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
  • Data suggests feds inflated small-business stats by mislabeling firms
  • Database errors let large corporations take money marked for smaller firms
  • Debt Management Gaining Popularity As Small Businesses Face Tougher Economy
  • Defending Obama's Small-Business Agenda
  • Defending Obama's Small-Business Agenda
  • Defense Bill Could Harm Small Businesses
  • Defense Bill Extends Disputed Small Business Program
  • Defense Bill Includes Secretive Contractor Blacklist
  • DEFENSE CONTRACTORS ACCUSED OF BRIBING NAVY OFFICIALS
  • Defense Department sued over Raytheon info
  • Defense Dept. Poised to Dump Program One Expert Calls a 'Sham' and 'Seriously Hurtful' to Small Business
  • Defense Dept. Poised to Dump Program One Expert Calls a Sham and Seriously Hurtful to Small Business
  • Defense firms in probe received $30M in stimulus money
  • Defense giants got funds meant for small firms
  • Democrats Attempt to Amend Small Business Act
  • Democrats Call for Action on SBA Budget
  • Democrats call for investigation of Defense subcontracting
  • Democrats Pledge SMB Support
  • Democrats Push More Disaster Aid for Small Businesses
  • Democrats seek probe of small business contract data
  • Dems flunk feds on small-biz contracts
  • Determining What Constitutes a Small Business
  • DHS says spending provision could hurt small business contracting
  • DISA awards contract to company with history of fraud
  • DoD Inspector General Finds Playing Field Still Not Level
  • DOD Must Give Sikorsky Contract Data To Small Biz Group
  • DOD, Sikorsky Appeal Ruling In FOIA Data Fight
  • DOE Loses Legal Battle to American Small Business League
  • Does President Trump hate small businesses? Read his 2021 budget proposal and decide
  • Does SBA plan go far enough?
  • Does the SBA Matter?
  • Dollars for Small Firms Diverted
  • Don't divert small-business aid to big business
  • Don't end HUBZone
  • Don't Merge the Small Business Administration
  • Don't Merge the Small Business Administration
  • E-Mail Shows SBA Recommended GTSI To Be Debarred
  • Eagle Eye takes aim at ASBL challenge
  • Easy Target?
  • Economic Lifelines: Jobs, More Jobs
  • Economic Policies Of Obama Administration Ignoring Small Businesses
  • Economist: Small biz doesn't merit special treatment
  • Editorial: Overhaul small-biz contracting
  • Editorial: Time for state, local 'Google governments'
  • Editorial: Time for state, local 'Google governments'
  • Eliminating Fraud in Small Business Contracting
  • Eliminating one government program might create 400,000 jobs, says ASBL
  • Email from huffington Post Executive Blog Editor, Stauart Whatley
  • Email to JD Harrison at the Washington Post from the ASBL
  • Entrepreneur feels victimized by federal agency, big competitors
  • Entrepreneurs Not Feeling Stimulated
  • EPA requires justification for fully competitive contracts
  • Error benefits corporate giants
  • Error Costs Small Business Owners Big Losses to Top Corporate Giants
  • Error gives big companies U.S. contracts meant for small businesses
  • Ex-Bush aide Safavian gets 18-month prison term
  • Ex-DoD official sentenced in Ga. for bribery
  • Existing procurements got bulk of Recovery Act contract dollars
  • Expert Opinion: Who's to Blame?
  • Expert Opinion: Who's to Blame?
  • Explaining the Senate Plan to Kill the Small Business Administration
  • Failed Bush SBA Administrator Barreto, Described by Washington Post as "The Next Michael Brown," Joins Schwarzenegger Team
  • FAR reaching Bailout
  • Farewell to the Windfall Profits Tax
  • Fear and loathing
  • Feared gridlock aftermath: Less help for small business
  • Federal Agencies' Small Business Contracting Milestone Questioned
  • Federal Agencies' Small Business Contracting Milestone Questioned
  • Federal agency tries to keep small businesses small
  • Federal Agents Pre-Dawn Raid On Reporter's Home Raises Questions
  • FEDERAL CLASSIFICATION: Big deal for small businesses
  • Federal Contract Information 'Disappears'
  • Federal contract program faulted
  • Federal Contracts Draw New Scrutiny
  • Federal database miscasts large companies like Verizon and Dole as small businesses
  • Federal District Court Rules SBA Wrongfully Withheld Documents
  • Federal Executive Bonus-Docking Bill Panned by Vendor Group
  • Federal funding hits record low
  • Federal government falls short of small business contracting goals (yet again)
  • Federal government misses its small business contracting mandates
  • Federal government misses small business contract goal - again
  • Federal Government Misses Small Business Procurement Goal Yet Again
  • Federal Investigation Reveals that Gov't Small Business Contracts went to Large Firms
  • Federal legislation could restore biotech funding
  • Federal Oversight Panel Slams Obama's Small Business Plans, Says Administration Not Doing Enough
  • Federal Procurement Overlooks Small Biz
  • Federal Small Business Contract Goal Missed For 6th Straight Year
  • Federal Small Business Contracting: Fact or Fiction?
  • Federal VARs Fighting Back
  • Feds Blasted Over Small-Business Deals
  • Feds classify giant firms as small businesses
  • Feds fall short on small biz contracts
  • Feds Favor Big Business Over Small
  • Feds List Corporations as Small Businesses
  • Feds Miscast Verizon, Dole as Small Firms
  • Feds Short-changed Small Businesses Out of $200 Billion in Contracts in 2015 Alone, Says Advocacy Group
  • Feds Spend Millions Fighting FOIA Lawsuits, GAO Finds
  • Feds To Appeal Ruling That Favors Small Business Group
  • Feel Cheated?
  • Fight for the Little Guy
  • Fight to Save SBA Escalates
  • Fighting Over the SBA's Future?
  • Film to Document Fraud in Federal Small Business Contracting Program
  • Firm pays $1 million to settle claims it misrepresented its size
  • Five Questions for Lloyd Chapman, President of the American Small Business League
  • Fixing Small Business Procurement in the Bailout Bill
  • FL, MN, CA Winners In First Katrina Contracts
  • Flaws are found in Small Business Administration program
  • For public officials, financial disclosure gets easier
  • For small businesses, CIT is already failing
  • For the People
  • Forbes: Let the Small Business Administration work
  • Former Business Executive Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges in Alleged $28 Million Bribery and Kickback Scheme
  • Fortune 500 Companies Are Getting Billions From Federal Small Business Contracts
  • Fortune 500 Firms Receiving Billions in Federal Small Business Contracts
  • Fox News, CNBC Pundit Wages War With U.S. Hispanic Chamber Over Small Business Bill
  • Fraud and Loopholes Deliver Small-Business Contracts to Big Firms
  • Fraud hits disabled veterans
  • Fraud Rampant in Veterans Preference Contracts
  • Fraud Rarely Punished on Small Business Contracts
  • FY2021 Budget: Cuts to SBA
  • GAO blasts SBA, says some programs riddled with fraud
  • GAO criticizes oversight of contracts to Alaska Native firms
  • GAO finds Alaska Native contracting advantages problematic
  • GAO finds lax oversight of deals to Alaska Native corporations
  • GAO may probe validity of Pentagon small business subcontracting program
  • GAO Points Finger at SBA Alaska Program
  • GAO Report Indicates SBA Program Plagued With Fraud
  • GAO Report: Government Spends Millions to Defend Against FOIA Requests, but Actual Cost Difficult to Determine
  • GAO To Report Next Month On Extent Of Big-Business Fraud
  • GAO: Billions in small-business contracts go to big firms
  • GAO: Fraud in gov't contracts for disabled vets
  • GAO: small business contract dollars overstated.
  • GAO: Small Businesses Lose Out on Deals
  • Gap in awards stymies small firms
  • GE gained with data-entry errors
  • General Dynamics cashes in on $30m 'small business' contract
  • Getting small biz contracts to small businesses
  • Giant Corporations Are Reaping Billions From Federal "Small Business" Contracts
  • Giant firms get 'small business' benefits
  • Giant firms show up on list used for small-business aid
  • Giants designated 'small businesses'
  • Giants like Verizon are miscast as small firms
  • Giants Miscast as Smaller Firms
  • Government 'small business' contracts include many big names
  • Government Accused of Giving Small Business Contracts to Fortune 500 Companies
  • Government awards small-business contracts to large companies
  • Government chided for neglecting to meet mandatory small-business contracts
  • Government Contracting and Small Businesses
  • Government Errors Hurt Small Businesses
  • Government Falls Short of Small Business Contracting Goals
  • Government helps big 'small' companies
  • Government is doing worse at contracting with small businesses
  • Government lists several big companies as `small'
  • Government Must Pay Fees In FOIA Case
  • Government Shutdown Hurts SBA Lending At Banks In December
  • Government Small Business Data Includes Billions to Fortune 500 Firms, ASBL Reports
  • Government Small Business Statistics Include Over 5,000 Large Businesses
  • Government's contracts to small business inflated
  • GovernmentContractingTips.com Interviews Lloyd Chapman, President of the American Small Business League
  • Governor Lauded for Small Business Stance
  • Governor Romney Has One Last Chance to Expose Obama's Abysmal Track Record for the Middle Class
  • Grants Fuel Fight Over Semantics
  • Griffith: Bill needs more work
  • Griffith's small-business bill generates debate
  • Griffith's small-business bill generates debate
  • Group Charges Obama Is Backtracking from Tax Promises
  • Group Considering Class-Action Suits Against Any Corporate Cheaters
  • Group Demands SBA Investigation
  • Group says McCain doesn't care 'a bit about small business'
  • Group seeks injunction to halt changes to procurement database
  • Group sues SBA to get records of contract protest decisions
  • Group Sues SBA, Says Government 'Defrauded Small Businesses'
  • Group Sues SBA, Says Government 'Defrauded Small Businesses'
  • GSA boasts improvements in small business contracting
  • GSA Comment Deadline Looms
  • GSA scandal sheds light on small business contracting fraud
  • GSA to Report Findings: "Are Big Businesses Being Awarded Contracts Intended for Small Businesses?"
  • GTSI Is Back In Business: SBA Lifts Suspension of Major Contractor
  • GTSI Kept Winning Federal Small Business Contracts, Even Though It Admitted It's Not a Small Business
  • GTSI reports $16 million net loss in '05
  • GTSI suspension a wake-up call: Experts ask if more will follow
  • Gulf Coast Firms Question Government Contracts
  • Half of federal agencies miss contract goals
  • Harnett: Has fraud finally caught up to SBA?
  • Has the death knell been sounded for the SBA?
  • Hearings On Fraud Set As SBA Acts On Inspector General's Recommendations
  • Hector Barreto Resigns As SBA Chief
  • Help On The Way For Venture-Backed Businesses?
  • Helping hand for small businesses
  • Here's Why It's So Hard to Start a Business in the U.S.
  • Hey, Small Business Job Creators, Republicans Just Aren't That Into You
  • Home-Based Businesses Generate $102 Billion
  • House Advances Bill to Curb Contract 'Bundling' that Favors Large Companies
  • House Advances Bill to Curb Contract 'Bundling' that Favors Large Companies
  • House Approves $484 Billion in Additional Coronavirus Relief Funding
  • House bill clears way for VCs
  • House bill could help some small businesses, hurt others
  • House Committee Goes Rogue on Small Business Grants
  • House committee rips SBA for unauthorized pilot programs, contracting woes
  • House Democrat Calls on SBA Head to Quit
  • House Dems blast lack of fed policy change for small biz
  • House extends SBA programs
  • House Ready to Steam Roll Venture Capital Bill
  • House redefines small business
  • House to vote on opening SBA to venture capital firms
  • House Votes to Stop Future Funding of Rosoboronexport
  • How 8,500 large companies will become small businesses overnight
  • How big companies get on SBA's list
  • How big is small? SBA increases size standards for 70 industries
  • How Many Big Contractors Are Actually Posing As Small Businesses?
  • How one small word change could mean many more contracting dollars for small businesses
  • How the Feds Starve Small Contractors
  • How the New York Times Co. Became a Small Business
  • How to help the drivers of job growth
  • HP Balances on Tightrope. Move To Sell Directly to Consumers Irritates Dealers
  • Huge corporations reap small-business contracts
  • IBM, AT&T Unfairly Getting Small-Business Contracts: Study
  • IG: Big Companies Look Small in Databases
  • IGs recommend harsher deterrents for small biz fraud
  • Impersonators in the Land of Small Business
  • In Florida, 'small businesses' aren't all small
  • In the SBA's Face
  • Increase in Native corporation contracts brings Senate scrutiny
  • Industry group seeks access to size protest documents.
  • Information Technology Trade Association Spurs Investigations of Alleged Size-Standard Violations
  • Infotech and the Law: It's not easy staying small
  • Input: Large companies share of federal IT pie growing
  • Insight settles small-biz suit
  • Interior faulted on small-business contracts
  • Investigators find Interior contract coding problems
  • IRS scandal exposes small-biz pass-throughs
  • IRS-Contractor Ties Seen as Influencing $500 Million in Awards
  • Is Obama misleading small businesses?
  • Is Obama Planning To Screw Small Business?
  • Is Obama Reading this Blog?
  • Is Obama Thinking Small?
  • Is Obama's SBA a Tool of Big Business?
  • Is small business getting the shaft?
  • Is the SBA a Shell of Its Former Self?
  • Is the SBA Hurting Small Business?
  • Is Uncle Sam a Deadbeat?
  • It's time for SBA to get real about small business contracting numbers
  • Jason Altmire Honored as Most Anti-Small Business Member of Congress
  • Judge Orders DOD to Release Information on Contracting Program Under Fire
  • Judge Orders SBA Info Released
  • Judge orders SBA to release contracting data
  • Judge to hear dispute over small biz contract data
  • Judge: release contracting report.
  • Judge: SBA Must Disclose Contract Recipients
  • Justice Department Rules in Favor of SBA
  • Kaine seeks to more than double small business contracts
  • Karen Gordon Mills Set to Lead SBA
  • Keeping Procurement Honest
  • Kerry to Head Small-Business Committee
  • Lakers Received $4.6 Million Coronavirus Small Business Loan, But Returned It
  • Landrieu to chair Senate small-business committee
  • Large Businesses Winning More Small Business Government Contracts
  • Large Corporations Continue to Grab Contracts Meant for Small Businesses
  • Large Cos. Win ~$16b Contracts Reserved for Small Businesses
  • Large firms improperly categorized
  • Large Firms Termed 'Small' on Database of Government
  • Latest GOP scandal: Billions misappropriated to help corporations
  • Lawmaker: National Security Council should be subject to FOIA requests
  • Lawmakers seek probe on DoD subcontracting
  • Lawsuit accuses SBA of cover-up
  • Lawsuit Alleges SBA Inflated SME Contract Stats
  • Lawsuit calls on SBA to stop 'deceptive' practices
  • Lawsuit calls on SBA to stop 'deceptive' practices
  • Lawsuit seeks SBA report on contracting fraud.
  • Lawsuit: Gov. contracts go to big business over small
  • Lax Oversight a Problem in Federal SMB Programs
  • Leading Government Influencers
  • Lending a Hand to Small Business
  • Letter to the editor | Small-business programs deserve protection
  • Letter to the Editor: Obama's Policies are Bad for Small Business
  • Linda McMahon Backed Revamp of SBA, Which She Has Been Picked to Lead
  • Listen to Lloyd Chapman's Interview with Jim Peake
  • Listing large companies as small skews federal help, job creation
  • Little big firms
  • Little Business Means Big Trouble
  • Liveblog: FDIC Looks into Small Business Lending, Bernanke to Testify
  • Lloyd Chapman Responds to V.C. Efforts
  • Lloyd Chapman's Crusade on Government Contracting and Small Business
  • Local man Fights for Small Business Contracts
  • Lockheed Martin Contracting Report FOIA
  • Lockheed Martin Contracting Report FOIA Denial
  • Long-Running Fight With Small Business Administration Sparks Contest Over Legal Fees
  • Look to Small, Minority Businesses for Job Creation
  • Looking Out For Small Businesses In D.C.
  • Looming large: are small-business contracts really going to the big guys? - Capitol Issues
  • Mainer in line to head Small Business Administration
  • Man launches Bowling Green business at time of manifest change
  • McCain or Obama: Same old, same old for small business
  • McCain Struggles While Obama Pulls Ahead
  • McCaskill probes 'clunky' contracting databases
  • Mean Street: The Sham of a Mockery of an Obama Jobs Summit
  • Measure to Dock Federal Executive Bonuses Weakened by U.S. Panel
  • Media Firms Counted As Small Businesses
  • Meet 4 People Giving Small Businesses a Big Voice in Washington
  • Military not giving small business subcontractors a fair shake
  • Minority firms get few contracts
  • Minority firms getting few Katrina contracts
  • Misclassified large firms reaping a small windfall
  • Missouri Race to Test SMB Sentiment
  • Missteps found in awarding Katrina deals
  • Mistakes skew data on small businesses
  • Monday Meter: THUMBS UP & DOWN — Great idea, but is it working?
  • More Groups React to Bailout Bill
  • More Lies: Watchdog Finds Government "Greatly Exaggerated" Success In Funding Small Businesses Last Year
  • More Secrecy Won't Help David
  • More small businesses get federal contracts But government misses goal to award more to women-owned firms
  • More Stimulus Contracts to Go to Small Businesses
  • Mr. Barreto: Please Resign
  • Mr. Small Biz Goes to Washington
  • N.C.'s Burr proposes changes that small-business advocates don't like
  • N.C.'s Burr proposes changes that small-business advocates don't like
  • Nader says groups endorsed Obama because of party affiliation
  • NAGC Statement of Opposition
  • NASA sued for failing to disclose contracting information
  • NASA Sued Over SMB Contracting
  • National Small Business Week Events Scaled Back
  • Native corporation contracts get a close look in US Senate
  • Nearly Half of Fortune 500 Companies Get Small Business Administration Money Meant For Small Businesses: American Small Business League
  • Nearly Half of Fortune 500 Gets the (Small) Business
  • Neeeever mind (again!): Obama abandons windfall profits tax
  • New legislation requires small business contracting
  • New regulations level field for small-firm contracts
  • New SBA Chief Pressured to Stop Fraud
  • New SBA Contracting Rules Criticized
  • New SBA head sees 'huge social opportunity'
  • New SBA Head Takes Reigns
  • New SBA Head Will Ignore Agency's Biggest Problem
  • New SBA leader faces criticism over lack of experience
  • New SBA leader faces old worries
  • New SBA recertification rules kick in
  • New SBA Rule Aims To 'Certify' Small Firms
  • New size rules fall short
  • New Small-Business Chief Has Critics Already
  • New US law to freeze small firms out of federal contracts
  • Nixed: No Windfall Tax on Big Oil from Obama
  • No "Small" Stakes
  • No Friend in Government
  • Not supporting small business is economic suicide, observers of economy say
  • Nuts and Bolts of the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010
  • O. Drops Windfall Profits Tax for Oil, Gas
  • Obama Abandons Windfall Profits Tax on Oil Companies; Liberals Smell a Corporate Rat
  • Obama Administration accused of want to destroy 'incriminating data'
  • Obama Administration accused of want to destroy 'incriminating data'
  • Obama Administration Diverting Federal Contracts From Small Businesses, Says ASBL
  • Obama Administration Not Supporting DVBE & Other
  • Obama administration spent record amount of money fighting Freedom of Information Act lawsuits
  • Obama And Oil Companies: Did The President-Elect Just Break His First Campaign Promise?
  • Obama Apparently Drops Windfall Profits Tax Proposal
  • Obama back-tracks on small business policies
  • Obama Backs Off Windfall Tax Pledge
  • Obama Commission Suggests Folding SBA into Commerce Dept
  • Obama drops proposal for windfall profits tax
  • Obama Drops Windfall Profits Tax
  • Obama Fiddles While Small Businesses Fizzle
  • Obama First to Win SMB Group's Endorsement
  • Obama Hood: Taxing Big Oil to Give Americans Another Stimulus Check
  • Obama in Allentown as jobless brace for winter of discontent
  • Obama Must Consider These 8 Major Improvements to the Small Business Jobs Act
  • Obama Orders Changes in Small Biz Contracting
  • Obama Outdoes Pro-Business Republicans
  • Obama Picks VC to Lead SBA
  • Obama Plan: What Do Small-Business Advocates Think?
  • Obama Pledges Public Works on a Vast Scale
  • Obama pledges small business reform
  • Obama promises small-biz support
  • Obama proposes big change for Small Business Administration
  • Obama Proposes to Consolidate Commerce, SBA and Other Departments
  • Obama quietly drops windfall tax proposal
  • Obama Revives Agency Consolidation Proposal
  • Obama Rhetoric on Infrastructure Spending Doesn't Match Administration Actions
  • Obama scrapped a tax that could have funded a green economy
  • Obama seen continuing Bush 'anti-small business' policies
  • Obama shelves oil company tax after price fall-aide
  • Obama Small Business Conference Should Take 'Reasonable' Steps to Reduce Unemployment
  • Obama wants to reorganize, merge federal agencies
  • Obama: Entrepreneurs Key to Turnaround
  • Obama: No Friend of Small Business?
  • Obama's First Policy Retreat?
  • Obama's Justification for Closing the Small Business Administration Doesn't Add Up
  • Obama's Plan to Close Small Business Administration Could be Coming Soon
  • Obama's State Of The Union Should Have Focused On Small Businesses
  • Obama's Tiny Jobs Ideas for Main Street, A Big Spending Freeze for Wall Street
  • Obscure Pentagon Small Business Program Gets a Boost from GAO
  • OD blacklist authority could go too far, say small-biz advocates
  • Official Records Say Lockheed Is a Small Business
  • Officials say the government kept its promise to small businesses. Did it really?
  • Officials: SBA may be on its last legs
  • Oklahoma Senator Co-Sponsors Bill To Close Small Business Administration
  • OMB to rate agencies on efforts to break up large contracts
  • OMB Will Require Annual Re-Certification Of Small Firms on GSA Schedules, GWACs
  • On Health Care Reform, Who Speaks for Small Business?
  • Other SBA challenges … charges amid recent changes
  • OUR OPINIONS: Small businesses need a big hand
  • Our View -- Small Biz quota a big problem
  • Out of Reach
  • Outside the Beltway? Out of luck winning contracts
  • Overhaul in the Offing at SBA
  • Owner's Manual column
  • Owners slip through the small business loophole
  • Parting Shot
  • Pentagon files appeal not to release information in subcontracting plan
  • Pentagon Forced to Go to Trial on Withheld FOIA Documents
  • Pentagon Headed to Court Against Small Business Advocate
  • Pentagon May Be Forced to Release Aircraft Manufacturer's Contract Data
  • Pentagon May Be Forced to Release Aircraft Manufacturer's Contract Data
  • Pentagon sued by American Small Business League over FOIA request
  • Pentagon sued for refusing to release contracting data
  • Pentagon Wins Court Round on Disclosing Sikorsky Subcontracting Plans
  • Pentagon, Sikorsky sued over small-business contracts
  • Petaluma group sues for small businesses
  • Petaluma man spurs SBA overhaul.
  • PNS Contracts Neither Boom Nor Bust
  • POLITICS: BARRETO BATTLES BACK
  • Poll: 4 out of 5 Americans don't trust Washington
  • Pompano company, other Katrina contractors overbilled, report says
  • Preferential contracting made easy
  • President Obama Solution; Kill Minority Owned Businesses…
  • President prepares to give purchase orders
  • Pretending to be small
  • Private Company to Oversee Database on Public Contracts
  • Probe questions small-business data
  • Problems at the SBA
  • Procure your piece of the bailout
  • Procurement Chief tells Agencies to Focus on Small Business Set-asides
  • Procurement officers get lots of heat, little help
  • Professor Charles Tiefer Challenges Accuracy of Government Small Business Data
  • Profile - Lloyd Chapman
  • Proposed Bill Could Help Save Small Businesses
  • Proposed changes to SBA rules could cripple small biz value-added resellers
  • Proposed rule change could hit small IT businesses
  • Public Access to Contracting Data Disputed
  • Public Citizen Report: Federal Data on Small Business Share of Procurement Is Wrong_x000D_
  • Publisher's Page
  • Put Your Best Face Forward
  • Putting the Spotlight on Small Business
  • Raising Your Profile: SEO Tips for 2009
  • Raytheon at center of DoD lawsuit
  • Reaction to new SBA regs mixed
  • Real Change: New President Gets VC
  • Reality Check: Barack Obama drops windfall tax proposal
  • Reauthorization of Federal Program Reduces Opportunities for Small Business Contractors
  • Redefinition of Small Leads to Huge Brawl
  • Renuncia Héctor Barreto a la SBA
  • Report: Administration misleads on small-business contracts
  • Report: Agencies exaggerated success with small-business contracting goals
  • Report: Billions in federal small-business contracts go to large firms
  • Report: Federal small-firm money goes to big companies
  • Report: Fraud and abuse in SBA program for disabled vets
  • Report: Many small-business contracts awarded to large companies
  • Report: SBA subsidizes huge corporations
  • Report: Small Businesses Losing Out
  • Reports Find Errors and Fraud in Small Business Administration Contracts
  • Republican Congress Criticized for SMB Failures
  • Rescue Package Hostile to Small Business?
  • Resolving Problems Raised By Critics of Size-Standard Rules Won't Be Easy
  • Restaurant Industry Expresses Concern Over Health Care
  • Review Finds Fraud in Contracts Awarded in Disabled Veterans' Program
  • Review Finds Fraud in Contracts Awarded in Disabled Veterans' Program
  • Richest Corporations Received Millions of Dollars in Small Business Contracts
  • Rider on Emergency Military Spending Bill Would Strip Government Contracts from Small Businesses
  • Rule Change Seen as Helping Small Business
  • Rules for Small Businesses Will Recertify Their Sizes
  • Russian Arms Dealer Was Classified as a Small Business, Briefly
  • SAIC CEO urges lawmakers to address pressures from small business
  • Sandy Baruah takes over as US Small Business Administrator
  • Saturday News Briefs
  • Save the SBA
  • SBA "Set-Aside Policy" Proposal Could Change Which VARs Are Eligible
  • SBA accused of falsifying small business contracting data
  • SBA Accused of Illegal Lobbying
  • SBA Accused of Shortchanging Small Business Contractors
  • SBA Addresses Fraud Allegations in GAO Report
  • SBA administrator Barreto steps down
  • SBA administrator faces a tough crowd at House Small Business Committee
  • SBA administrator takes heat from Democrats and Republicans in Congress
  • SBA Amends Size Regulations For Contractors But Not All Pleased
  • SBA and Small Business Programs in Peril?
  • SBA Announces New Rules
  • SBA appeals ruling to release contracting data
  • SBA Asks Judge to Dismiss Advocacy Group's Suit in Alleged Slander Flap
  • SBA Assistance Helps Startups Survive
  • SBA at a Crossroads
  • SBA budget cuts could prolong recovery process
  • SBA budget cuts viewed with concern
  • SBA Budget Mired in Controversy
  • SBA called slow to kill duplicative programs and curb improper payments
  • SBA charade
  • SBA Chief's Priority Is Helping Next Apple
  • SBA claims questioned, but not answered
  • SBA Closes up Vets Office, Annual Contracts Plunge
  • SBA considering mandating set-asides on multiple award contracts
  • SBA Continues To Fail Small Businesses
  • SBA contract errors are result of deception
  • SBA Contract Fight Heads to Court
  • SBA Contracting Rules Draw Fire
  • SBA critic blasts latest nominee for SBA chief
  • SBA critic stops short of proposing agency's abolition
  • SBA critics ask: When is large small?
  • SBA Critics Chide Schwarzennegger for Adding Barreto to Team
  • SBA cuts may affect Dolly loans
  • SBA Data Show Large Firms Are Nabbing Contracts Reserved for Small Businesses
  • SBA deals go to big contractors
  • SBA decides size really does matter
  • SBA Defends Methods for Documenting Contracting Goals
  • SBA draft report emerges
  • SBA Draws Flak Over Big Contractors' Share of Awards
  • SBA Draws Flak Over Big Contractors' Share of Awards
  • SBA Extends Comment Time for Size Rule
  • SBA Faces Credibility Gap Over SMB Contracting
  • SBA Faces Scrutiny in Congress
  • SBA Faulted for Role in Blackwater Security Guard Scandal
  • SBA faulted on set-aside check
  • SBA fights back on contracting goals lawsuit
  • SBA Finds SMBs, Public Oppose Proposed Safe Harbor Policy
  • SBA Fraud Hearing Discusses Loan Agent Abuses, Enforcement, Set Asides, Agency Abolition
  • SBA goes to court
  • SBA Has New View of "Small"
  • SBA Hearing Fields Opinions on Small Business
  • SBA in shambles
  • SBA in the Hot Seat
  • SBA Inspector General Tells Sen. Kerry There Are Few Instances of Size Fraud
  • SBA Looks to Reform Contracting Laws
  • SBA Loses Expertise with Retirements
  • SBA Loses Legal Battle Over PR Contract
  • SBA Loses Touch With Small Business
  • SBA Moves to Curtail Contractor Fraud
  • SBA Needs Thorough Overhaul in Wake of HUBZone Scandal
  • SBA Needs to Clean Up Act on Small Business Contracting
  • SBA no shot in the arm
  • SBA not letting agencies rest on contracting laurels
  • SBA not meeting goals in contracts to small businesses, critics say
  • SBA Official Blasts 9/11 Loan Program
  • SBA Opens Hearings on "Small"
  • SBA ordered to cough up contracting data
  • SBA Ordered to Furnish Contracts Report
  • SBA ordered to pay legal fees to American Small Business League
  • SBA ordered to reveal names of companies that got federal small business contracts
  • SBA ordered to turn over records
  • SBA pins hopes on venture capitalist
  • SBA practices blasted by small biz, Dems
  • SBA Press office takeover: Pentagon retired Commander put in charge of SBA press
  • SBA Programs Set for Major Overhaul
  • SBA Proposal Could Change Landscape for IT Resellers
  • SBA proposed size standard change riles small IT resellers
  • SBA proposes rules for women's procurement program
  • SBA pulls sales, employee data from Web site
  • SBA Reconsiders What "Small" Should Mean
  • SBA regs ruffle feathers
  • SBA reports $79.6 billion in contracts to small businesses
  • SBA Rethinks What Qualifies as 'Small' Business
  • SBA Reveals Mystery Contract Violator
  • SBA ripped for alleged big business ties
  • SBA says federal agencies fell short of small-business lending goal
  • SBA Says It's Not Illegally Withholding Report On Big Firms Miscoded As Small
  • SBA Seeking Definition of a "Small" Business
  • SBA seeks comments on proposed women-owned business program
  • SBA Seeks to Prevent Corporations from Landing Small-Business Contracts
  • SBA spending on PR being revealed
  • SBA standards: When size matters
  • SBA steps up oversight of contractor registrations.
  • SBA stumbles with second round of emergency loans
  • SBA sued for PPP transparency as agency boosts another loan's limit
  • SBA sued to release name of contractor
  • SBA Takes Closer Look At Federal Contractors
  • SBA Takes Flak Over Revising Company Size Standards
  • SBA To Overhaul Its Small Business Procurement Scorecard
  • SBA to redefine small-business size
  • SBA To Review Size Loopholes in Contracts
  • SBA to Withhold Contractor Identities
  • SBA Trying to Keep Small Businesses Small
  • SBA unveils recertification rules for small businesses
  • SBA vows Senate battle over 7(a), micro-loans
  • SBA vs American Small Business League in Lawsuit
  • SBA vs American Small Business League in Lawsuit (update)
  • SBA watchdog just blew a hole in small business contracting 'achievement'
  • SBA, ASBL reach accord on FOIA suit
  • SBA: Budget cuts don't mean less service
  • SBA: efficiency or death?
  • SBA: Federal Prison Industries not small for services
  • SBA: Small businesses power nation's economy
  • SBA: Turmoil at the top
  • SBA's Barreto quits
  • SBA's Jobs Tour More Smoke and Mirrors
  • SBA's Karen Mills Is No Friend to Small Business
  • SBA's legal woes not over with appeal
  • SBA's legal woes not over with appeal
  • SBA's New Guard Attacked for Contract Awards
  • SBA's new head eyes social opportunities
  • SBA's new leader faces critics
  • SBA's Role Sparks Debate on Capitol Hill
  • SBA's Semiannual Report of the Inspector General
  • SBC chief takes over agency, takes on critics
  • Scandal: Small Businesses Not Getting Fair Share of Gov. Contracts
  • Schwarzenegger blasted by small business group
  • Scram Big Banks: Small Lenders Take Over SBA Lending Program (For A Night)
  • Secret Blacklist Provision in Defense Authorization Bill Signals Death Knell for Small Businesses and Transparency in Contracting
  • Security Contractors Plead Guilty To Illegally Obtaining $31 Million From Contracts Intended For Disadvantaged Small Businesses
  • Security Digest: Our list of security stories that matter, Nov. 1-7
  • Seeing big as small; Feds list Verizon, Dole, others as 'small business'
  • Seeking a Bigger Slice of an $85 Billion Pie
  • Selection of New SBA Leader Pleases Most, But Not All
  • Senate close to approving bill that would aid small contractors
  • Senate Committee Approves Preston for SBA Post
  • Senate committee mulls bill to allow blacklisting of certain suppliers
  • Senate follows House in taking up small business contracting bill
  • Senate Grills SBA Over Federal Contracts
  • Senate inquiry finds big companies taking small business contracts
  • Senate passes bill creating federal spending database
  • Senate Set to Debate SBA Bill
  • Senate Small Business Comittee's Contracting Improvements Act of 2010
  • Senate touts commitment to small businesses
  • Senator accuses SBA of illegal lobbying
  • Senator bashes SBA and challenges its small business contract numbers
  • Senator examines SBA work
  • Senator John Kerry writes to the SBA requesting change
  • Senator Queries Slow SBA Hurricane Loans
  • Senator Says U.S. Agency Lobbied Illegally
  • Senator Snowe favors tiered size standards.
  • Senator: SBA may have engaged in illegal lobbying
  • Senators Help Marin Trade Group Fight for Small Businesses
  • Seven plead guilty in Navy contracting fraud
  • Shady Business in Washington
  • Should Obama Do More To Help Small Businesses Win Government Contracts?
  • Should VC-backed startups qualify for federal small business benefits?
  • Should VCs Be Regulated by the Feds?
  • Showdown Looms on Federal Contracts
  • Sikorsky Complains Over DOD Document Release In FOIA Suit
  • Sikorsky, Pentagon Target Of Lawsuit Over Small Business Access
  • Silence Is a Weapon
  • Sites not near Interstate 40 rock slide in Haywood County get SBA loans
  • Size Apparently Doesn't Matter
  • Size Matters
  • Size Matters in Business
  • Sizing Things Up
  • Sizing Up the Small-Business Jobs Machine
  • Skeptical Senate chairman asks SBA for list of every contractor it counted as a small business
  • Slow Business Administration
  • SMALL AGENCY, BIG CRITICS
  • Small Biz Earns Federal Work, Or Not
  • Small biz goals fall short
  • Small Biz Group Slams Proposed Contract Fraud Safe Harbor
  • Small biz group to get day in court_x000D_ vs. DOD subcontracting program
  • Small Biz Group Wants Access To Bechtel Contract Info
  • Small Biz Org Accuses SBA Of 'Creative Accounting'
  • SMALL BIZ PAYS BIG PRICE
  • Small Biz View: Bankruptcy law not a friend to small business
  • Small Biz View: Defining the small in business
  • Small Business - When Government Stacks the Deck Against You
  • Small Business Activist Wins Interim Victory Against Pentagon, Sikorsky
  • Small Business Administration adjusts standards, makes big businesses small
  • Small Business Administration Agrees to Turn Over PR Executive's E-Mail
  • Small Business Administration Criticized For Backing Big, Corporate Interests
  • Small Business Administration needs to be reined in says Velazquez
  • Small Business Administration sued over data nondisclosure
  • Small Business Administration Uses Variety of Accounting Tricks to Give Contracts to Big Businesses
  • Small Business Administration's new leader faces
  • Small business advocacy group prevails in lawsuit against SBA
  • Small Business Advocacy Group Takes Pentagon to Court
  • Small Business Advocate Claims Trillion-Dollar Fraud In Government Contracting
  • Small business advocate frustrated with government inaction
  • Small Business Advocate Scores Another Victory for Transparency
  • Small business advocate sees unrelenting effort to destroy SBA
  • Small business advocate sues SBA for withholding contracting data
  • Small Business Advocate Wins $475K in Legal Fees After 4-Year Fight With Government
  • Small Business Advocate's List Shows Many Large Firms Getting Set Asides
  • Small business advocates concerned over SBA nod
  • Small Business Agency will pay attorney fees in FOIA case
  • Small Business and the $700B Bailout
  • Small Business at Risk Under Republicans, Group Says
  • Small Business Bushwhacked Again on SBIR Research Grants
  • Small Business chief sees small firms as vital to recovery
  • Small business coalition blasts SBAâ€'s figures
  • Small business coalition blasts SBA’s figures
  • Small business committees, advocates hesitant to back Obama's restructuring proposal
  • Small business committees, advocates hesitant to back Obama's restructuring proposal
  • Small business contracting numbers inflated by errors and exclusions, data show
  • Small Business Contracts Flow to Mega Corporations
  • Small business face big worries
  • Small Business Fed Contracts: Does GTSI Qualify?
  • Small Business Federal Contract Diversion
  • Small Business Federal Contractors Make Gains
  • Small Business FOIA Fight Won't Get Day In High Court
  • Small business group blasts stimulus spending
  • Small Business Group Claims Victory Over Feds On Contracting Suit
  • Small Business Group Launches Campaign Opposing Obama's Plan To Wind Down Federal Small Business Programs
  • Small business group now suing Interior Department
  • Small Business Group Renews Suit Challenging SBA's Goal Claims
  • Small Business Group Renews Suit Challenging SBA's Goal Claims
  • Small business group says fixing fraud would stimulate economy
  • Small business group says jobs bill falls short
  • Small business group says Obama Administration misleads the public
  • Small business group says SBA moving closer to abolition
  • Small business group says Small Business Administration threatens it
  • Small business group starts fight with U.S. Army
  • Small business group sues Obama Administration
  • Small business group sues U.S. agency
  • Small business group takes on the U.S. Air Force
  • Small business hopeful but wary
  • Small business investment bill passes House
  • Small business leaders clash over proposal to consolidate SBA with Labor, Commerce
  • Small Business League Crusades to Shut Down 25-Year-Old Government Subcontracting Test Program
  • Small business league disputes federal contracts
  • Small Business League to Sue for Contract Data
  • Small Business Lobbies--Working for You?
  • Small business market share fell in 2004; as usual, accuracy of the official figures is in dispute.
  • Small Business Organization Wins FOIA Lawsuit
  • Small business owners say applying for emergency funds has been anything but easy
  • Small business package offers mixed feelings about outreach
  • Small business polls reject anti-regulation rhetoric
  • Small business procurement report needs adjustment, group says
  • Small business seeks fair share: Proposed federal law offers bigger...
  • Small Business Set-Aside Reform More Likely
  • Small business share of contracts shrunk slightly in 2011, SBA reports
  • Small Business Smarts
  • Small business voice fears venture capitalists set to gain
  • Small business wary of Pentagon black list
  • Small business weekly: Bouncing back, with no signs of slowing down
  • Small Business: Convenient Talking Point?
  • Small Business: Time to Panic?
  • Small Businesses and Federal Contracting: Good and Bad News
  • Small businesses deserve fair shot at federal money
  • Small businesses face greater scrutiny
  • Small businesses fear rule changes will crater federal contract chances
  • Small Businesses Fight Fickle Rules
  • Small businesses losing defense contracts
  • Small businesses losing U.S. deals
  • Small Businesses Need More Incentives in Bailout Bill
  • Small businesses not given fair access to US government contracts
  • Small businesses rally around SBA at hearing
  • Small Businesses Responsible for Nearly All New Jobs
  • Small Businesses Say Rescue Loans Come With Too Many Strings Attached
  • Small Businesses Seek Fair Fight for Contracts
  • Small businesses shortchanged
  • Small businesses shortchanged as Feds fail to reach contract goal
  • Small businesses speak out over question of eliminating SBA
  • Small businesses split over SOTU
  • Small businesses struggling to win federal contracts
  • Small Businesses Sue Government Goliath
  • Small businesses to benefit from new legislation
  • Small Businesses Want Their Share of New Government Spending
  • Small Businesses Wonder If Banks Understand Them
  • Small businesses, big concerns
  • Small businesses? Not quite
  • Small error causing big problems
  • Small firms losing out on defense contracts
  • Small Firms Losing Out on Some U.S. Contracts
  • Small firms rap SBA for thinking big
  • Small Firms Shortchanged On Federal Contracts
  • Small Firms Still Being Shut Out Of Government Spending; Options Abound
  • Small firms want fair share of bids
  • Small Firms: Size Matters on Federal Contracts
  • Small Gains for Small Business in Federal Contracting
  • Small Government VARs Cry Foul Over Contract Awards To Bigger Firms
  • Small to Mean Small in Contracts
  • Small VARs Bet Big On Federal Contracts
  • Small Vendors Win Record Amount of Contracts: BGOV Barometer
  • Small-biz advocacy group concerned about venture capital influence
  • Small-Biz Gov't Contracts Going To Big Firms, Group Says
  • Small-biz loan fund no silver bullet, Charlotte bankers say
  • Small-business advocate plans suit against DoD
  • Small-business advocate unfazed
  • Small-Business Advocate, Big-Company Resume
  • Small-business advocates want contract data back on website
  • Small-Business Agency's Problems Linger as Leader Moves on to HUD
  • Small-Business Agency's Problems Linger as Leader Moves on to HUD
  • Small-business bill not without opponents
  • Small-Business Chairs Rap Contracting
  • Small-business contracting increases, but still short of goal
  • Small-business Deals Under Investigation
  • Small-business forum called 'sham'
  • Small-business group fears GSA regs changes
  • Small-Business Group Objects to Federal Contract Database Change
  • Small-Business Group's FOIA Suit
  • Small-Business Groups Give Obama's First 100 Days Mixed Review
  • Small-Business Groups Give Obama's First 100 Days Mixed Review
  • Small-Business Hiring and Wages Slowed in 2005
  • Small-business optimism declines
  • Small-business Shake-up
  • Small-Business Stimulus Loans Off to Slow Start
  • Small-Business Watchdog Calls on New SBA Administrator to Release List of Small-Business Contractors
  • Small-Firm Funds Go Astray
  • SMB Contracting: A Litmus Test for President Obama
  • SMB Groups Fight Over Estate-Tax Reform
  • SMBs Get Fewer Federal Contracts
  • Smoke and mirrors at SBA
  • Solicitor Gen. Stalls DOD Release Of Sikorsky Contract Data
  • Some businesses worry about Obama's SBA move
  • Some Companies Got Unneeded 9/11 Loans
  • Some Skeptical Of SBA Numbers
  • Spectrum incentives, reseller rules, NOAA hacked and more
  • Squeezed Out? Is there any room left for small businesses in federal contracting?
  • Starbucks CEO to the Rescue?
  • Stimulus Act - A Small Impact on Small Business Owners and Even Smaller for Women in Business
  • Stimulus Aid Trickles Out, but States Seek Quicker Relief
  • Stimulus plan shortchanges small business
  • Struggle Continues to Reform the Small Business Administration
  • Study Faults U.S. Contracting With Small Firms
  • Sunshine superheroes: LLOYD CHAPMAN AND THE AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESS LEAGUE
  • Super Tuesday: Keeping Small Business in Check
  • Supreme Court endorses SBA secrecy
  • Supreme Court Won't Hear Small Business Administration Phone Records Case
  • Survey: Most new jobs come from small businesses
  • Suspension of IT contractor has roots in 2008 bid protest
  • Taxpayer Subsidies Flowing Mostly To Big Business, Not Small Business: Report
  • That Old Idea to Shutter SBA is Back
  • The American Small Business League says it will file its third lawsuit seeking to compel SBA to release information
  • The annual SBA scorecard controversy
  • The Big Business of Small Business
  • The big think: How to fix the SBA
  • The case of President Obama's missing oil tax
  • The Case of the $100 Billion Error
  • The Energy Squeeze
  • The Fuzzy Math of a Federal Program for Minority-Owned Businesses
  • The Incredible Shrinking Company
  • The Money Trail: Contractors lean to the right
  • The Myth of Federal Transparency: Government Celebrates Another Year of Failed Small Business Goals
  • The S.B.A. Puts the Best Face on Small-Business Contracting
  • The SBA's Iffy Future
  • The SBA's New Master
  • The Shrinking SBA Budget Doesn't Faze Many Firms
  • The Small Business Administration's Fabricated and Fraudulent Contracting Data: Coming Soon
  • The spoils of deregulation: federal agencies accused of awarding contracts intended for small firms to large corporations.
  • The Surprising Truth About Where New Jobs Come From
  • The Two Faces of Nydia Velasquez: Champion of the Working Class, Darling of Wall Street
  • The view from Maine Street
  • The wolf is at the door
  • These Small Businesses are Pretty Large
  • They Are Murdering Small Business: The Percentage Of Self-Employed Americans Is At A Record Low
  • Thinking Small
  • This Week in Small Business: Bankruptcies, Waivers and iPads
  • Tiered size standards are proposed.
  • To feds, large can be small
  • To Give or Not to Give
  • Too little action
  • Transparency in contracting remains opaque
  • Troubling preference
  • Trump Administration Fails At Creating Jobs By Missing Small Business Contract Targets
  • Trump Budget Will Cost Small Businesses
  • Trump budget would cut Small Business Administration funding
  • Trump looks to cut funding to Small Business Administration, Lakewood businesses concerned
  • Trump's 2018 Budget: What do the Funding Cuts Mean for Your Small Business?
  • Trump's 2020 Budget Is A Recipe of Disaster for Black Businesses, Says the U.S. Black Chambers
  • Trump's Proposed Budget Would be Devastating for Inner City Economic Development - ICIC
  • Trump's SBA Budget Saves Loan Guarantees, But Cuts Microloans And Training
  • Truth In Contracting
  • Two Years of 'Cookie Jar Capitalism' Still Rules in SBA HUBZone Program
  • U.S. Agency Tries to Define Small Business
  • U.S. Chamber of Commerce Winner of National 'Scrooge of the Year' Award While Its CEO Tom Donohue Me
  • U.S. contract database lists big firms as small
  • U.S. Falls Short in Awarding Small-Business Contracts .
  • U.S. giving big firms work meant for smaller
  • U.S. government's small business procurement goal achievement is under attack: Are the criticisms valid? _x000D_
  • U.S. May Miss Small-Business Contract Goal for 12th Year in Row
  • U.S. Small Business List Beset by Errors
  • U.S. small businesses drive job creation
  • U.S. Small-Business Aid May Create $300 Billion of `Junk' Loans
  • U.S. small-business spending disputed
  • Uncle Sam's Broken Promises
  • Under U.S. Small-Firm Programs, Big Dollars Flow To Big Firms
  • US agency revamps Small Business Procurement Scorecard
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  • US Federal Contractor Registration: Small Business Set-Asides Discontinued After 30 Days of Large Business Acquisition
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