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On the campaign trail in 2008, then–Senator Barack Obama proclaimed that “it is time to end the diversion of federal small-business contracts to corporate giants.” He was referring to a provision of the 1997 Small Business Reauthorization Act that called for 23 percent of the dollar value of all US government contracts to go to small businesses, a rule that was routinely ignored during the Bush administration. Then in the summer of 2014, Obama’s Small Business Administration declared victory, with SBA administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet proclaiming happily that “when we hit our small business procurement target, it’s a win.”
The achievement was even a rare glimpse of bipartisanship in a polarized Washington. Missouri Republican Sam Graves said it “demonstrates that the reforms enacted during the past two Congresses are working,” and touted legislation aimed at raising the target to 25 percent.
Read more: The government says small businesses get 23% of federal contracts. Reality says otherwise.
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