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Small Biz Chair Rep. Sam Graves: fought to cut Obamacare, EPA, SBA

After four years as chairman of the House Small Business Committee, Rep. Sam Graves, R-MO, leaves behind a legacy of mostly hard knocks for small business federal contractors.

Small federal vendors are relatively few in number but nonetheless are a significant constituency of the committee. Graves proclaimed his support for the small contractors and sought for several years--albeit unsuccessfully--to increase the government’s goal for small business contracting to 25%, from the current 23%.

But by falling short on that goal and achieving limited gains on others, and by supporting policies and strategies that many federal contractors view as having had a sharply negative effect on them, Graves’ legacy with this constituency is likely to be mostly disappointing.....

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