WASHINGTON, March 24 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R42581) on March 23, 2021, entitled "State Small Business Credit Initiative: Implementation and Funding Issues" by American national government senior specialist Robert Jay Dilger and public finance specialist Grant A. Driessen: SUMMARY Congressional interest in small business access to capital has always been high, primarily because small businesses are viewed as a means to stimulate economic activity   more

WASHINGTON, March 24 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R42581) on March 23, 2021, entitled "State Small Business Credit Initiative: Implementation and Funding Issues": (Continued from Part 1 of 2) Texas Treasury's OIG examined five investments, totaling $6.3 million, financed by the Texas Small Business Venture Capital Program and $105,000 of administrative costs that the state charged against SSBCI funds. The OIG found the program in full compliance with   more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Indiana, ranking Republican member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support, issued the following news release on March 24, 2021: Main Street employers shared their experiences with how enhanced unemployment benefits have discouraged Americans from returning to work and slowed the re-opening of the American economy during a public Ways and Means panel hosted by Republican Leader for the Worker and Family Support Subcom  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, issued the following news release on March 24, 2021: Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) today introduced a resolution recognizing the mutual history and special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom, and expressing the Sense of the Senate that the United States President should lay the groundwork for a mutually advantage  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on March 24, 2021: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. issued the following statement after U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today announced the reopening of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) new Pandemic Assistance for Producers initiative, created to help producers impacted by COVID-19. "The agriculture industry was hit hard by th  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. voted against the nomination of Rachel Levine to be Assistant Secretary of Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for her radical views on abortion, on gender transitioning in young kids, and track record in failing to prioritize seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the vote, Senator Marshall issued this statement: "Dr. Rachel Levine d  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. joined his colleagues at a press conference and railed against H.R.1/S.1, the Democrats' unconstitutional election bill saying in part that the bill "uses tax-payer dollars to fund campaigns. That's going to result in more political attack ads, and when Americans find out they are going to have more attack ads their heads are going to explode... As I think about this legis  more