Pictured, from left to right: SVLG CEO Carl Guardino, Senator Holly Mitchell, David, Bakari Brock (Lyft) and Assemblymember Shirley Webber, PhD.

Congressman Michael McCaul (TX-10), Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, staff director Brendan Shields and chief of staff Hans Klingler met with Lynda Talgo, VP, Global Managed Marketplaces and Tod Cohen, VP and Deputy Counsel, Global Government Relations last week to discuss eBay Inc.'s business model and illustrate the ways in which omnichannel retailing, mobile and local are driving our key policy areas, such as trust/privacy, trade and digital payments.

Nathan Gisvold, a former small business owner in Nevada, recently sent a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal expressing his concerns with the Senate passed Marketplace Fairness Act. In his letter, Gisvold outlined two reasons why the Marketplace Fairness Act was flawed policy. First, he argued that that the bill violates a core value of the founding fathers: no taxation without representation.

In a recent letter to the editor, Virginia small business owner, John Feigenbaum, defends Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA)  from critics that are saying that, as the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Goodlatte is hurting Virginia small businesses by failing to pass the Senate-passed Marketplace Fairness Act.