Kerry speaks about small business

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The Boston Globe has an article about Kerry's priority for small business"

Kerry has big ideas for small business

By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | March 8, 2007

When the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship convenes a public hearing this morning , it will address an issue its new chairman, Senator John F. Kerry , acknowledges is "a little off the beaten track."

The topic: climate change. The Massachusetts Democrat wants to gauge its impact on small businesses and explore how they can help prevent it.

Spurring emerging companies to develop alternative energy technologies is only one of the senator's priorities for the panel. Other priorities he cited during an interview in his Boston office this week include reducing the cost of healthcare and boosting research and development funding for small businesses, while looking for ways to make the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, passed in 2002 to counter a wave of corporate financial accounting abuses, less onerous.

"We can keep accountability, and we can keep transparency, but we can do it without placing such an incredible burden on small businesses that costs become prohibitive," Kerry said.
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With a treat: 3 videos of Kerry speaking about small businesses.


http://www.boston.com/business/video/kerryvideo/

Also, KG has a post on her blog:

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=5429#more-5429

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1. This is wonderful!

But is anyone else having trouble getting sound on the videos? I'm sure it's just me...