for the national small business association, taxes and access to capital are small businesses. >> certainly, we do the paperwork required. increase the cat. they need to create capital. small businesses are the ones that are the back bone of this country. >> knile small business and entrepreneurship would like the see them get back to the mission of small business and training. >> the big issues of center tax reform, the complexity of taxes. on the regulatory side, they are burdened by overregulation. and they are certainly, there is a lot of under certainty with regard to regulations. >> may not straem is hoping she'll be fighting for the little guy. >> so from small business to big business. some are heading to washington to discuss with trump. it is expected they will make their cases against the border adjustment tax. the possible 20% too. imports they say would raise. >> that border adjustment tax is considered a key part of yet to be proposed republican tax plan. it would generate a lot of revv flew to pay for lower corporate and personal income taxes and infrastructure spending. john

separate data from the nonpartisan national small business association finds companies are spending about $12,000 a year to comply. >> reporter: that compliance weighs heavily on the minds of entrepreneurs ceo of amerry cooler, the a manufacturer of walk in freezers. and has him considering ways to cut back. >> the affordable care act one of the unintended consequences is, you know, you try to avoid hiring people if you don't have to and the past we may need -- it would be nice to hire maybe ten more people to help capacity, now we're like, there's no way. let's try to figure out a way to make it happen without hiring people. >> reporter: they're hoping for change. >> we love just to see more regulatory reform. i think, you know, it's hard for us. we don't have a lawyer on staff to help us figure it all out and so it would be great if the government and agencies could take a little bit more care at looking at the small business impact of regulations before they just charge ahead issuing new ones. >> reporter: for "nightly business report," i'm kate rodgers. >> and to read more about the r

separate data from the national small business association finds companies are spending about $12,000r to comply with federal regulations alone. we reached out to different businesses to hear what regulations they would like to rereformed in washington. first up, taxes. here's the owner of tribute inc, a small business software company. >> the greatest burden of federal taxes is around compliance. simply understanding what the tax code is requiring of us. doing all the work associated not only with the annual filings, but also quarterly filings, monthly filings, payroll taxes around that. it can just -- just the sheer quantity of work that we have to put into to -- put into the project to pay our taxes, which diverts our attention away from building our businesses. >> each year reynolds says he is spending about 50 hours complying with the federal tax code. that's even with using an accountant for help with details which costs him around $15 now a year. >> thank you for that. coming up, we'll talk yahoo and verizon. they reportedly reached an agreement on a revised deal on two major s

the politicization. but this isn't just a democrat versus republican fight. we had the national restaurant association immediately come out with a statement where they said this takes into the economy and how important this could hurt small business if they continue going down a similar path. this is a fight that isn't as easy, not as black and white as we can talk about it on tv. a lot of gray areas. >> kayleigh, it begs the question of will donald trump stop attacking judges. tonight all he said on twitter is i'll see you in court. he did just say, it's a political decision. this comes on top of tweets about judge robart, now of course going to be -- was -- originally did the ruling where trump said just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. if something happens, blame him. and in the opinion of this so-called judge. here he is again tonight saying it's a political decision. do you think he understands that kind of talk might have backfired on him? and that's why partially this could have been 3-0? >> i think he realizes and hopes as we all do that judges would rule based on the law, not the fact they were criticized by a co-equal barra co-equal branch of government, the president. but a smart point by ala

the contractor monitoring division to make sure that small businesses are made aware of certification that is the only way we can be able to count them and have ongoing meetings with trade associations the national association of minority contracts women owners and executives and minority business development agrees and the department of congress and sfosht question will continue to perform our functions we feel that insuring the small businesses community is made aware of the solicitation is one of the best procrastinates to get them engaged and the construction area we've looked go the joint venues e ventures between the larger and smaller firms. >> a little bit about the workforce program similar to the small business programs we have that an aggressive and robust small business i'm sorry workforce construction workforce program sitting at the 50 percent of total hours again those are the contract by contract base we provide first consideration to the residents we find in the project areas and those being within hunters point shipyard and candle stick point and mission bay and transbay and the city and city and county of san francisco office of economic workforce development administrators th

the contractor monitoring division to make sure that small businesses are made aware of certification that is the only way we can be able to count them and have ongoing meetings with trade associations the national association of minority contracts women owners and executives and minority business development agrees and the department of congress and sfosht question will continue to perform our functions we feel that insuring the small businesses community is made aware of the solicitation is one of the best procrastinates to get them engaged and the construction area we've looked go the joint venues e ventures between the larger and smaller firms. >> a little bit about the workforce program similar to the small business programs we have that an aggressive and robust small business i'm sorry workforce construction workforce program sitting at the 50 percent of total hours again those are the contract by contract base we provide first consideration to the residents we find in the project areas and those being within hunters point shipyard and candle stick point and mission bay and transbay and the city and city and county of san francisco office of economic workforce development administrators th

the contractor monitoring division to make sure that small businesses are made aware of certification that is the only way we can be able to count them and have ongoing meetings with trade associations the national association of minority contracts women owners and executives and minority business development agrees and the department of congress and sfosht question will continue to perform our functions we feel that insuring the small businesses community is made aware of the solicitation is one of the best procrastinates to get them engaged and the construction area we've looked go the joint venues e ventures between the larger and smaller firms. >> a little bit about the workforce program similar to the small business programs we have that an aggressive and robust small business i'm sorry workforce construction workforce program sitting at the 50 percent of total hours again those are the contract by contract base we provide first consideration to the residents we find in the project areas and those being within hunters point shipyard and candle stick point and mission bay and transbay and the city and city and county of san francisco office of economic workforce development administrators th

the chamber of commerce, air conditioning contractors of america, american benefits council, nfib. just looking through, small business and entrepreneurship council. national federation of independent business. national electrical contractors association. national black chamber of commerce. and i could go on and on. business and business associations and groups that deal with this and have concern about their employees, their retirees, having a good and safe mechanism by which to have their retirement savings protected. supporting our efforts here to take back what took place under the cover of darkness, as it were, which took retiree savings off the benefit of erisa. i just want that to be made clear. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady from oregon. ms. bonamici: just to claire fy. there was a comment made these are government-run plans. under these plans, the states establish the framework for conducting the contributions, but these will be managed by investment professionals not by the state. now i yield three minutes to my colleague, congressman desaulnier, from california, a leader on the education and work force committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. desaulnier

the support of small businesses and farmers around the country. groups like the federation of independent business, the united states chamber of commerce, the national association of homebuilders, the american farm bureau federation, and many others have voiced their support for mr. pruitt. as president of the environmental protection agency, i take the nomination process very seriously. our committee thoroughly vetted mr. pruitt. we held a confirmation hearing that lasted more than six hours. this is by far the longest confirmation hearing for an e.p.a. administrator on record. during this hearing, attorney general pruitt was asked more than 200 questions by members of the committee. we had four rounds of questioning. it's an unprecedented number. our democrat colleagues on the committee noted during the hearing how fair the process was. they said how much they appreciated the opportunity to ask so many questions. after the hearing, committee members submitted another one,8 -- 1,078 written questions for mr. pruitt to answer. this is the most for the environmental protection agency ever. his answers were thoughtful and thorough. that's why i was disappointed t