Political Quotes

“Mr. President, first of all, let me thank our colleague for his words. I certainly join him in mourning the horrible, tragic loss of life this weekend in Orlando. Certainly I am committed, along with all our colleagues, to fighting terror wherever it exists and whomever it targets. This was absolutely horrible. Mr. President, I also rise today in support of a really important piece of bipartisan legislation that I have been working on with Senator Shaheen. I have introduced it to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs-- two vital small business programs in the Federal Government. We have an opportunity to accomplish this--to fully reauthorize and improve these programs--in the context of this Defense authorization bill that is on the floor now. I am very hopeful we are going to do that as part of a managers' package to the bill. These two programs--the Small Business Innovation Research and the Small Business Technology Transfer Programs--are really vital and useful to the success of small businesses directly responsible for creating thousands, tens of thousands of new jobs. By funding small businesses and entrepreneurs in the critical early stages of R&D, these programs allow firms to drive the innovation sector of the economy with new ideas and technologies. Very rarely have government programs had such a clear and measurable, positive and stimulating effect on the economy.…”