Sam Brownback: “It's a big issue for them. I've spoken to Secretary Gates and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs about this as well.”

I wanted to engage my colleague from North Dakota because there is a strong base of bipartisan support to do this, and I also believe there is a strong majority community across America that supports this. Don't get it out there so wild…

We cannot expect small, mid-size or even larger businesses to take on large numbers of additional employees when the government is raising the cost for employing them gainfully.

The Senate version was introduced by then-Senator Sam Brownback.

The Democrats' stimulus has failed, and the Obama recovery is subpar.