WASHINGTON, June 21 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R47245) on June 17, 2024, entitled "SBA Disaster Loan Limits: Policy Options and Considerations." The report is written by American national government specialist Bruce R. Lindsay, small business and economic development policy R. Corinne Blackford and research assistant Daniela E. Lacalle. Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY The Small Business Administration (SBA) Disaster Loan Program provides  more

WASHINGTON, June 22 -- The House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight released the following testimony by Chuck Baker, president of the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association, from a June 13, 2024, hearing entitled "Environmentalism Off the Rails: How CARB Will Cripple the National Rail Network." CARB is the California Air Resources Board. * * * As president of the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA), the trade ass  more

WASHINGTON, June 22 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on June 21, 2024: Today, Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas) released the following statement regarding Canada's decision to move forward with a new tax on digital services that would be retroactive to Jan. 1, 2022, and have an outsized negative impact on U.S. innovators. "I'm disappointed by Canada's decision to enact these retroactive, discriminatory taxes that will hurt the U.S. economy and the longstanding trade partn  more

WASHINGTON, June 22 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, ranking member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, issued the following news: U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and John Boozman (R-Ark.) introduced a resolution to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, better known as the G.I. Bill. Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944, this landmark legislation provided returning World War II ve  more

WASHINGTON, June 22 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, ranking member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, issued the following news: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (Kan.) - ranking member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee - spoke on the Senate floor regarding decisions being made at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that limit veterans' access to care. "For veterans - particularly those in rural states like yours and mine - the ability to get care closer to home can be life-changing  more