IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 298 
Congratulating the on-premise sign industry for its contributions to the 
success of small businesses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 30, 2009 
Mr. KING of Iowa (for himself, Ms. HERSETH SANDLIN, and Mr. BOREN) sub-
mitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
Small Business 
RESOLUTION 
Congratulating the on-premise sign industry for its 
contributions to the success of small businesses. 
Whereas safe, creative, and effective on-premise signage has 
served as a primary catalyst to successful small busi-
nesses in America since the establishment of the Nation; 
Whereas most of the companies that manufacture on-premise 
signs in the United States are in and of themselves small 
businesses as described by the Small Business Act and 
generate thousands of manufacturing jobs that stimulate 
the economy and support the local, State, and Federal 
tax bases; 
Whereas the on-premise sign industry in turn sustains mil-
lions of additional entities covered under the Small Busi-
ness Act by providing to retail businesses across the 
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country an affordable and effective advertising medium 
through which they can communicate to potential cus-
tomers about goods and services they offer, direct those 
customers to their small business sites, and reinforce the 
memory of existing customers about the locations and the 
nature of these small businesses; 
Whereas the Small Business Act empowers the Small Busi-
ness Administration to take actions to relieve the com-
petitive disadvantages that small businesses face; 
Whereas one such competitive disadvantage for small busi-
nesses is a lack of marketing research and advertising 
budgets to attract and retain customers; 
Whereas the Small Business Administration has recognized 
the value of on-premise signage as a remedy to these 
competitive disadvantages and has taken action to reme-
diate this disadvantage by collaborating with the sign in-
dustry to collect educational information about signs and 
to publish that information on its website that is free of 
charge and easily accessible to all small businesses; and 
Whereas the on-premise sign industry will play a critical role 
in supporting the Nation’s small businesses during the 
current economic downturn: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives (1) ap-
plauds the United States Small Business Administration 
for educating small business owners on the benefits of 
using well-placed, well-designed on-premise signs to over-
come competitive disadvantages in the areas of marketing 
and advertising, and (2) encourages the on-premise sign 
industry to continue its efforts to produce a new and 
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greater understanding of how to develop safer, more effec-
tive, and more affordable signage products so as to allevi-
ate small businesses’ competitive disadvantages in mar-
keting and advertising. 
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