Someone is trying to eliminate the SBIR program!!

SBTC Action Alert

Here we go again! Someone is trying to eliminate the SBIR program!! The American Enterprise Institute just published a paper recommending elimination of the SBIR program and all other tax, procurement and regulatory benefits for small business. This paper has already been discussed in Forbes and Business Week magazines. The report’s author, Veronique de Rugy, is scheduled to testify before the Government Affairs subcommittee, chaired by Sen. Tom Colburn (R-Okla.), at 2:30 on Thursday, April 6.

The Small Business Technology Council is contacting you hoping that you will immediately contact Colburn and other members of the subcommittee (see list below) and let them know how important the SBIR program is to your company and to your state. We would also urge you to submit written testimony to him for inclusion in the hearing record. The testimony doesn’t need to be long or complicated or in any specific format. Your testimony should include how important SBIR is to your company and state. Include the number of jobs you and the SBIR program have created and something short about one or two of your SBIR technologies. The testimony should be emailed to [email protected] If you live in one of the states of the other Committee members, you should also contact them through their websites and let them know SBIR is important. This AEI paper is wrong on small business job creation! Send them a copy of your testimony and try to see them and talk to them about SBIR.

Remember, Reauthorization is just around the corner.

The AEI paper can be found at http://www.nsba.biz/docs/aei_small_business_report.pdf. I’m directing your attention to page 9 Section 2.5, which discusses the SBIR program and the paper’s abstract which recommends eliminating all programs that benefit small business. The paper devotes more time to SBIR than any other program for small business.

Please send us blind copies of your communications to Colburn and his staff.

You can reach Coburn by calling one of his two offices:

Washington, D.C.: Phone – 202-224-5754

Fax – 202-224-6008

Oklahoma City: Phone – 405-231-4941

Fax – 405-231-5051

Here are the other members on the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs:

Republican

Democrat

Susan M. Collins Chairman (R-Maine)

DC Office Information
461 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2523
Fax: (202) 224-2693

Joseph I. Lieberman Ranking Member (D-Conn.)

706 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4041
Web Form: lieberman.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm?regarding=issue

Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)

United States Senate
522 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-3004
(202) 224-2354 FAX
email contact information

Carl Levin (D-Mich.)

269 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6221
Web Form: levin.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

George V. Voinovich (R-Ohio)

524 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3353
Web Form: voinovich.senate.gov/contact/index.htm

Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii)

141 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6361
E-mail: [email protected]

Norm Coleman (R-Minn.)

320 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5641
Web Form: coleman.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm

Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.)

513 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2441
Web Form: carper.senate.gov/aemail.htm

Lincoln D. Chafee (R-R.I.)

141A RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2921
Web Form: chafee.senate.gov/webform.htm

Mark Dayton (D-Minn.)

123 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3244
Web Form: dayton.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm

Robert F. Bennett (R-Utah)

431 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5444
Web Form: bennett.senate.gov/contact/emailmain.html

Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)

324 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3224
Web Form: lautenberg.senate.gov/webform.html

Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.)

328 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6621
Web Form: domenici.senate.gov/contact/contactform.cfm

Mark Pryor (D-Ark.)

257 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2353
Web Form: pryor.senate.gov/contact/

John W. Warner (R-Va.)

225 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2023
Web Form: warner.senate.gov/contact/contactme.cfm

Jere Glover
Executive Director, SBTC
202-662-9700

Small Business Technology Council, 1156 15th St. NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20005.

(202) 785-4300. Fax: (202) 872-8543. http://www.sbtc.org.

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