Title: Recognizing November 24, 2018, as "Small Business Saturday" and supporting efforts to increase awareness of the value of locally owned small businesses.
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Recognizes and encourages the observance of Small Business Saturday.
Supports efforts to: (1) encourage consumers to shop locally, and (2) increase awareness of the value of locally owned small businesses and the impact of such businesses on the U.S. economy.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1144 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1144

   Recognizing November 24, 2018, as ``Small Business Saturday'' and 
supporting efforts to increase awareness of the value of locally owned 
                           small businesses.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 13, 2018

 Mr. Chabot (for himself, Ms. Velazquez, Ms. Adams, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. 
Lawson of Florida, Mrs. Radewagen, Mr. Luetkemeyer, Mr. Schneider, Mr. 
 Fitzpatrick, Mr. Brat, Mr. Evans, Miss Gonzalez-Colon of Puerto Rico, 
   Mr. Curtis, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Mr. Norman, Mr. Blum, Mr. 
 Marshall, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. Knight, Mr. Kelly of Mississippi, Mr. 
  Balderson, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Higgins of New 
  York, Ms. Pingree, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. Loebsack, Mr. Schweikert, Ms. 
Norton, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Delaney, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Kelly of 
    Illinois, Mr. Tipton, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Mr. 
    Moulton, Mr. Stivers, and Ms. Bonamici) submitted the following 
   resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Recognizing November 24, 2018, as ``Small Business Saturday'' and 
supporting efforts to increase awareness of the value of locally owned 
                           small businesses.

Whereas there are over 30,200,000 small businesses in the United States;
Whereas small businesses represent 99.9 percent of all businesses with employees 
        in the United States;
Whereas small businesses employ nearly 48 percent of the employees in the 
        private sector in the United States;
Whereas small businesses pay 40.8 percent of the total payroll of the employees 
        in the private sector in the United States;
Whereas small businesses constitute nearly 98 percent of firms exporting goods;
Whereas small businesses generated 1,900,000 net new jobs; and
Whereas November 24, 2018, is an appropriate day to designate as ``Small 
        Business Saturday'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes and encourages the observance of ``Small 
        Business Saturday''; and
            (2) supports efforts--
                    (A) to encourage consumers to shop locally; and
                    (B) to increase awareness of the value of locally 
                owned small businesses and the impact of locally owned 
                small businesses on the economy of the United States.
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