Make Your Voice Heard on Capitol Hill
Fueling Family Business Growth, New Research Findings Top Agenda for June 9 Congressional Family Business Caucus
‘Capital Solutions for Family Business’ Growth Strategies Set for Second 2026 Meeting on Capitol Hill; New Survey Reveals Current State of Family-Owned Businesses
This year’s second of three bipartisan Congressional Family Business Caucus meetings will focus on “Fuel for Growth: Capital Solutions for Family Business.”
The June 9 meeting inside the Capitol Building’s Visitor Center will feature presentations from family businesses, legislative and tax experts, and members of Congress.
The Capitol Hill meeting begins with formal introductions and presentations at 8AM and ends with meetings with House Members and staff from 2PM – 5PM.
Attendees will hear from Members of the Congressional Family Business Caucus, policy experts, and family-owned business leaders in a panel discussion providing insights to the challenges accessing capital to fuel family-owned business growth.
In addition, Caucus hosts Pat Soldano, President, and John Gugliada, Director of Engagement, of Family Enterprise USA, will unveil new national survey findings from family-owned business leaders on their economic and policy priorities. The Family Enterprise USA Annual Family-Owned Business Survey is conducted in the first quarter of every year.
Soldano will also present new findings from Luntz Research, which offers recent insights into voter attitudes on wealth, savings penalty taxes, and waste in government spending.
Capital to Fuel Tomorrow
The Caucus meeting features talks from members of Congress and political and policy “state of play” insights from the experts at the government affairs and law firm, Brownstein.
The panel discussion on growth strategies consists of a wide array of family-owned business leaders.
The panelists are David Kelly, Director, Kelly Benefits; Frank Foster, Chairman Emeritus, Hixon Family Companies; Paige Kavooras, Executive Vice President, Global, A 1st Flagship Company; Nate Hamilton, Executive Chairman, FOX Office Exchange; and Bart Lamont, Operating Partner, Hallador Investment Advisors, Inc.
“ThisCongressional Family Business Caucus meeting is important because it focuses on what’s happening right now, and in the future, specifically how family-owned businesses are finding ways to fuel their growth for tomorrow,” said Soldano about meeting. “Family businesses must be more creative than ever in finding capital solutions that work for them today and for the next generation,” she said.
For more information on the meeting with Members of the Congressional Family Business Caucus, contact: jgugliada@family-enterpriseusa.com.
Want to learn more?
About Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is a unique law firm. Walk into any of our offices and you’ll immediately recognize a different type of energy. Complacency doesn’t have a place here. Flexibility and inspiration do. Our culture and enthusiasm allow our attorneys, policy consultants and legal staff to stay ahead of our clients’ needs and provide them with the resources they require to meet their business objectives.
We hope you've enjoyed this article. While you're here, we have a small favor to ask...
As we prepare for what promises to be a pivotal year for America, we're asking you to consider becoming a member.
The need for fact-based reporting of issues important to family owned businesses and protecting a lifetime of savings has never been greater. Now more than ever, successful families and family owned businesses are under fire. That's why Family Enterprise USA is passionately working to increase the awareness of issues important to family owned businesses built on hard work, while continuing to strengthen our presence on Capitol Hill. The issues we fight for or against with Congress in Washington DC include high income tax rates, possible elimination of valuation discounts, increase in capital gains tax, enactment of a wealth tax, and the continued burden of the gift tax, estate tax and generation skipping tax.
Family Enterprise USA promotes generationally owned family business creation, growth, viability, and sustainability by advocating for family businesses and their lifetime of savings with Congress in Washington DC. Since 2007, Family Enterprise USA has represented and celebrated all sizes, professions and industries of family-owned enterprises and multi-generational employers. It is a bi-partisan 501.c3 organization. Family foundations can donate.
#incometax #CapitalGainsTax #R&DExpensing #DontPunishSuccess #GrantorTrusts #StepUpinBasis #likeKindExchanges #AcceleratedDepreciation #EstateTax #Deathtax #wealthtax #taxLegislation #CongressionalCaucus #incometaxrates #repealestatetax #AdvocatingForFamilyBusinesses #FamilyOwnedBusiness #WomenOwnedBusiness @FamilyEnterpriseUSA #FamilyEnterpriseUSA #FEUSA