America's small businesses are the backbone of our economy accounting for 54 percent of the American sales and 55 percent of American jobs.

Thank you Mr. Chairman for scheduling this markup today - it is especially timely as we celebrate National Small Business Week.

As an owner of a multi-generational family air conditioning and heating business, I understand first-hand the importance of equipping and empowering small businesses.

I believe this amendment offered by the gentlemen from California... would aid in protecting from cybersecurity attacks.

I ask my colleagues to similarly support H.R. 2015 in a bipartisan manner so that we may prepare it for the House floor Action.

This is a great piece of legislation, as the sponsor has said.

I thank Representative Dan Webster and Research and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Dan Lipinski for their work on this legislation.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for allowing us to be able to come forward. I thank my friend Mr. Lipinski for filing this. He's certainly known as a champion of I-Corps and maybe the champion of I-Corps, so I'm very…

I think it's going to be one of the most commonsense bills passed by this Congress.

This bill is going to help break down those barriers so that those who are developing their product can also get them to market.

23 of the 25 have been bipartisan bills, and that's got to be some kind of record.