Political Quotes

“Madam President, I also rise to discuss provisions of this bill and would like to begin by saying, when one gets into the details, you see there is a spectacular array of provisions that have been put together by the Small Business Committee to assist small businesses in helping them get themselves back on track, and, in the course of doing so, get our Nation back on track. Particularly, I thank the chair of the Small Business Committee, the Presiding Officer, Senator Landrieu, for working in such a bipartisan manner to bring together the best ideas that can be brought to bear in that effort to assist our small businesses. I will mention just a few of them. A 100-percent exclusion of small business capital gains will be big factor for helping our small businesses, a carryback provision so small businesses can take and balance out losses against former profits, making the general business credit not subject to the alternative minimum tax, increasing the Small Business Administration loan limits, eliminating the Small Business Administration loan fees, and so on and so forth. These are terrific provisions to assist small businesses. But I wish to particularly speak to two additional parts of this bill. One is the Small Business Jump Start Act. This is intended to help businesses get started in their first year. Under this provision, it allows the deduction not of $5,000 in startup expenses but of $10,000.…”