Rob Portman: “I hope he will talk to the small business people in the State of Washington as well as in the State of Ohio that I…”

“I hope he will talk to the small business people in the State of Washington as well as in the State of Ohio that I represent. This does help them. I was with one of those small business people today talking about section 179 expensing and the importance of being able to plan. And he was absolutely delighted that this Congress is going to pass, once again, legislation to be sure that he can plan for being able to immediately write off not $25,000 a year, but $100,000 a year of new purchases in equipment. This is extremely important. To say that this is a bill that does not matter and that it is just something that we do around election time, I think, is not consistent with the fact that in 2003, this same legislation was passed by this Congress. We would like to make it permanent. It is extremely important to our small business community.”