The Hill article by Jim Snyder The administration and Congress are locked in a big fight over how to direct billions of dollars in federal contracts to small businesses owned by women. Seven Democratic senators wrote a letter last week that criticizes the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) plan to boost female-owned small businesses, which currently account for only 3.4 percent of the federal contracts awarded annually. The longtime goal has been to increase that figure to 5 percent of the total, a difference that could potentially bring an additional $6 billion each year to companies owned by women. Women own around 30 percent of the country’s businesses. “We cannot emphasize enough the depth of our disappointment with this rule,” the senators wrote. To read the rest of this article, please click here.