There are a number of bipartisan actions Congress can take right now to create jobs and strengthen the recovery.

Opposition to the government is not criminal behavior. Exercise of free speech is not criminal behavior.

To Cuba and other governments across the hemisphere, our message must be clear: nonviolent dissent is not criminal behavior.

Mr. President, the answer to that in Kansas is that it doesn't make any sense at all. There is no good judgment there. That is a point I would make in a more broad way. The provisions of Startup 2.0 are mostly about common sense, things…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to enter into a colloquy with my Senate colleagues. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Startup Act 2.0

Mr. President, entrepreneurs and new businesses are vital to the strength of the U.S. economy. We need to be a competitive country in which we have great success in creating jobs in America. Between 1980 and 2005, startup companies--less…

I very much appreciate the remark of the Senator from Missouri and his cosponsorship of this legislation. Let me highlight something he pointed out, which is in the short time that those of us on the floor today have been in the Senate…

I commend the Senator from Kansas for his comments. I am fond of Canada. My mom's family is from Canada. It is remarkable. Canada, over the last 3 years, has aggressively sought out worldwide talent. I ask the Senator from Kansas whether…

No. I hope we can get a number of our colleagues to join us. This doesn't fall under a traditional Democratic versus Republican lexicon. This is more about future versus past. This is the future of global competition for talent, for ideas…

Mr. President, I would like to thank my friend, the Senator from Kansas, for his leadership on this issue. This is something on which he and I spent a lot of time working, as have, I know, the Senators from Delaware, from Florida, and we…

When I am walking in the Third District of western Pennsylvania, to a person, everybody I talk to talks about the crushing boot the government puts on the throat of small business people.

Yeah. They are really going in looking for overpayments, obviously, on that.

the goal of this is that it is right the first time, not that we are paying chasing

I also think that what comes through is that CMS, in conjunction with the Inspector General's Office and GAO, is working forward in a way that is learning from the mistakes of the past.

This is someone we should be serving. We should hold people to account, but we should also be serving them...

The appeal rate seems to be extremely high when we are looking for fraud, and we are fighting back and forth...

The way it is set up.

As a Federal Government, we are designed to serve the people, rather than them serve us.