This Week in Entrepreneurship Policy

Posted by: Mark Marich on May 14, 2012 Source: Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship

A fairly slow week on Capitol Hill is punctuated by a Joint Economic Committee hearing on "How the Taxation of Labor and Transfer Payments Affect Growth and Employment." Witnesses for the hearing are: Simon Johnson, entrepreneurship professor from MIT; Richard Rogerson, economics professor from Princeton; and Andrew Biggs, resident scholar at AEI (and former principle deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration).

HOUSE
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• Implementation of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
  House Committee on the Judiciary
  2141 Rayburn HOB
  Wednesday, May 16
  10:00 am


• U.S. Trade Strategy: What’s Next for Small Business Exporters?
  House Committee on Small Business
  2360 Rayburn HOB
  Wednesday, May 16
  1:00 pm


JOINT
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• How the Taxation of Labor and Transfer Payments Affect Growth and Employment
  Joint Economic Committee
  G-50 Dirksen Senate Office Building
  Wednesday, May 16
  2:00 pm


SENATE
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• The Social Security Administration: Is it Meeting its Responsibilities to Save Taxpayer Dollars and Serve the Public?
  Senate Committee on Finance
  215 Dirksen Senate Office Building
  Thursday, May 17
  10:00 am

Category:  Capitol Hill  Tags:  MIT, Princeton, SSA,