Senator Lankford and I are going to co-chair this hearing for our nominee today.

Short but sweet. Thank you for that statement.

This place runs not entirely, but a lot, on relationships and trust.

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It is great to be in a room where we can agree on a lot of different things--one in particular, I suspect.

I grew up in a small business-owning family and I hear week in and week out from Delawareans who are trying to run small businesses exactly the points that our panel testified to.

Education is going to be critical, because if the small businesses have difficulty, the startups are going to have a greater difficulty in doing it.

That will be a massive change. We had it in 2010 for one year. It was just a sea change for folks being able to take it across the board.

I think biochemical, pharmaceutical, I think anything in the medical field will all be very good targets for this.

hey, we are going to make the R&D credit available for startups, starts being the driver for both innovation and for new jobs in this country, is a godsend.

We need to make sure that the IRS is working with them on that.

I think it is going to be a challenge to educate.

The R&D tax credit has made a huge difference, particularly for very large and very profitable companies, over a long period of time.

The reason small businesses cannot take the R&D credit, the key reason is the AMT.

Finding ways to make it accessible to early stage and startup businesses is a challenge that eluded me for a number of years.

I am very pleased to say that Senators Roberts and Schumer introduced this provision in Senate Finance Committee markup.

If terrorists want to do something serious, they will use a weapon of mass destruction--not mass disruption.