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WASHINGTON, D.C.– The House Small Business Committee, led by Chairman Sam Graves (MO-06), today held a hearing examining the methods the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) uses to audit small businesses.
Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel testified. The purpose of the hearing was to identify how the agency selects and classifies the tax returns of small businesses, in light of revelations that the IRS used inappropriate criteria to unfairly target certain groups.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– This evening, Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06) helped pass legislation through the U.S. House of Representatives to delay both the individual mandate and the employer mandate contained in the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, the Authority for Mandate Delay Act (H.R. 2667) would delay the employer mandate for one year, while the Fairness for American Families Act (H.R. 2668) would delay the individual mandate for the same timeframe. Congressman Graves was a cosponsor of both pieces of legislation.
You may have heard that the Obama Administration recently announced it was delaying the ‘employer mandate,' a key component of the Affordable Care Act which requires all businesses with 50 or more employees provide their full-time workers with an affordable healthcare option or face a penalty. While this delay may provide some relief for the Administration, it won't help small businesses that will still have to grapple with this heavy-handed mandate in the near future.
Opportunity for constituents to speak with member of Graves' staff
Sequestration offered Washington a real chance to reduce wasteful spending within the Federal government. Instead, the Obama Administration took advantage of the situation for political gain.
On July 3, 1776, a 41 year-old patriot named John Adams wrote a letter to his wife describing the Declaration of Independence that the Continental Congress would adopt the next day. The future president wrote, "I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means."
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Sam Graves (R-MO-6) today joined with Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) to introduce legislation to prohibit discriminatory taxes on the rental of motor vehicles.
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