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On the recordNovember 16, 2011
We together yesterday announced the introduction of the AGREE Act, the American Growth Recovery Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Act, which conveniently spells out ``agree.'' The core principle, as Senator Rubio described, was for a real Republican and a real Democrat to look through all of the different ideas that have been put out there, in the President's jobs bill, by the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, by Members of the Senate and the House from both parties, that we could come to agreement on, and to put them into a bill packaged to assemble all of these ideas and to put them out and hopefully we will pick up cosponsors, hope it will pick up steam, and hope we can demonstrate to the American people, to the families Senator Rubio and I have heard from in letters and e-mails and tweets, who have expressed real concern. The basic big-picture proposals in this bill are, first, extending tax relief for small businesses.…
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Chris Coons
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