By MSGI Policy Analyst Andrew Lautz Two hearings on Capitol Hill this week focused on what one expert called “extinction-level events”...

By MSGI Policy Analyst Andrew Lautz There were no less than three hearings on Capitol Hill last week concerning the great white whale of...

By Andrew Lautz, WIPP Government Relations There are 10 million women business owners in the U.S. generating over $1.4 trillion in annual...

By Ann Sullivan A letter from the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Small Business Committee recently came to my attention urging the...

By Ann Sullivan Partial Government Shutdown Enters Fifth Week. Today marks the 33rd day of the partial federal government shutdown. ...

By Ann Sullivan, WIPP's Chief Advocate As 2018 comes to a close (how did that happen already?), I am grateful for the progress WIPP...

By Ann Sullivan When you read this, the election results will likely still be coming in and you will know whether or not the House and...

By Ann Sullivan, WIPP Chief Advocate We all know from the polls and cable talk shows that America has very different political views. The...

By Ann Sullivan Something happens to Washington in September. The lazy hazy days of summer disappear, and the most beautiful weather...

By Ann Sullivan In the final scene of the Wizard of Oz, the dog Toto pulls back the curtain and Dorothy discovers the man behind the...

By Ann Sullivan Some days I feel talked to death. The 24-hour news cycle, Twitter, Congressional hearings, roundtables, forums – you name...

By Ann Sullivan At a recent meeting with women business owners—midsize and small–they pointed out shortages in the workforce that...

By Ann Sullivan We’ve all experienced a difficult friend or boss who tells you “do this” and then when you do it, they say “no I didn’t...

By Ann Sullivan For all women business owners who have secured, or are seeking federal contracts, the first order of business is...

By Ann Sullivan I don’t know if you watch the Oscars, or like me, go to a party having barely seen any of the movies. I am usually...

By Mark Lee On October 26, the House passed the Senate version of the FY2018 Budget Resolution. During Senate debate the previous week,...

By Ann Sullivan In a landmark hearing on women’s entrepreneurship in the Senate Small Business Committee held in 2014, senators focused...

We Did Pretty Good Ann Sullivan Every year when the WIPP Leadership conference convenes, our policy team does an assessment of what we...

What Washington Has in Store for Women Entrepreneurs Ann Sullivan Had I written this article a few days ago, it would have been obsolete....

By Mark Lee What a year so far! 2017 has been eventful to say the least, yet AEO continues to patrol the Halls of Congress and the...