House votes for $30B small-business lending fund

Friday, June 18, 2010

WASHINGTON -- A $30 billion government fund would be available to community banks to increase lending to small businesses under a bill passed by the House Thursday as congressional Democrats tried to revive their election-year jobs agenda.

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