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April 2, 2013 By AMK

SBA’s advocacy office catches fire from business and academic communities alike

The business community’s ombudsman within the Small Business Administration defended his office’s record against attacks from both the right and the left on Thursday.

Chief Counsel for Advocacy Winslow Sargeant was accused by business groups of allowing agencies to write regulations with little input from affected companies while an academic charged that his office is a tool of corporate anti-regulatory lobbying.

Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., chairman of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations, called the hearing out of concern that agencies may not be complying with the 1980 Regulatory Flexibility Act.

“Each year, federal agencies publish between 3,000 to 4,000 new regulations and many of those rules impose burdens on small businesses,” he said.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.govexec.com/oversight/2013/03/sba-office-catches-fire-businesses-and-academic-alike/61884/?oref=govexec_today_nl.

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: advocacy, federal regulations, Regulatory Flexibility Act, SBA, small business

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