LINCOLN, Neb., April 29, 2014—All three Nebraska U.S. House members received a huge endorsement today from the representative association for one of the nation’s most potent voting blocs.
“We support the candidates who support small business, and each of these candidates has a stellar, 100-percent voting record for Main Street, mom-and-pop shops,” said Bob Hallstrom, Nebraska state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, America’s Voice of Small Business. “It bears reminding everyone that small businesses employ the majority of working Americans, generate almost all new jobs, but have distinctly different difficulties in remaining solvent than big businesses do.”
The endorsements for re-election for U.S. Reps. Jeff Fortenberry (1st Dist.), Lee Terry (2nd Dist.) and Adrian Smith (3rd Dist.) were made by NFIB’s SAFE (Save America’s Free Enterprise) Trust, the association’s political action committee, and are based on positions regarding key small-business issues so far in this Congress, such as health care, taxes, and labor and regulations.
Quick, single-pages of bulleted information on the power of the small-business vote, what a small business is and the distinctions it has from a big business can be found here.
America’s largest small-business association, the National Federation of Independent Business has almost 5,000 dues-paying members in Nebraska. “Small businesses significantly impact Nebraska’s economy,” reports the Office of Advocacy at the U.S. Small Business Administration. “They represent 96.6 percent of all employers and employ 50.9 percent of the private-sector labor force. Small businesses are crucial to the fiscal condition of the state and numbered 164,465 in 2010 … Most of Nebraska’s small businesses … have fewer than 20 employees.”
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For more than 70 years, the National Federation of Independent Business has been the Voice of Small Business, taking the message from Main Street to the halls of Congress and all 50 state legislatures. NFIB annually surveys its members on state and federal issues vital to their survival as America’s economic engine and biggest creator of jobs. NFIB’s educational mission is to remind policymakers that small businesses are not smaller versions of bigger businesses; they have very different challenges and priorities.
National Federation of Independent Business/Nebraska
233 South 13th St., Suite 700
Lincoln, NE 68501-0008
402-474-3570
