WASHINGTON, DC-- Democratic Senators Tom Harkin, Mary Landrieu and Mark Warner will join small business owners from across the country at a press conference Tuesday morning to discuss how health insurance reform will benefit small businesses. Recent studies indicate that small businesses are likely to see their premiums rise 15% in the coming year, double the rate of last year's increase. Small businesses employ roughly 40% of the private labor force in America making it crucial that we work to ensure affordability of health coverage for this central part of the American workforce.
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WHO: Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Senator Mary Landrieu, Chairwoman, Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senator Mark Warner Mike Draper, small business owner from Des Moines, Iowa Gwendolyn Barnes, small business owner from Shreveport, Louisiana Dr. Ken Brantley, small business owner from Richmond, Virginia WHAT: Press Conference WHEN: Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 9:30 a.m. Media allowed to pre-set at 8:45 a.m. WHERE: S. 207 (Mansfield Room), U.S. Capitol Contact Information: Vicki Ekstrom 202-224-9431 [email protected] Richard Carbo 202-224-3655 [email protected]
SOURCE U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship
