Google: Google Statement on Startup Act 2.0
"As a onetime start-up that now employs thousands of Americans and continues to hire many more each year, we are proud to support Senators Moran, Warner, Rubio, and Coons' Start-up Act,” former Rep. Susan Molinari, R-N.Y., who is now Google’s vice president of public policy, said in a statement. “Small businesses often use Google to grow, expand, and thrive online; and helping these businesses succeed is a key to our success.” READ MORE. 

TechAmerica: TechAmerica Backs Startup Act 2.0
TechAmerica has long advocated for Congress to pass an innovation agenda that helps technology startups and small businesses succeed. The JOBS Act was a good first step but the Startup Act 2.0 will deliver much needed tools to our entrepreneurs, who are the lynchpin to our nation’s technology industry and the leaders of the innovation economy into the next century. READ MORE.

CEA: CEA Applauds Startup Act 2.0
The Startup Act 2.0 is a package of common sense approaches that will spur innovation, entrepreneurship and job creation. It will allow foreign-born, U.S.-educated immigrants to remain in America and use their training to build businesses and create domestic jobs. It also clears away a variety of anachronistic regulations that have made it difficult for small businesses to expand and thrive. READ MORE.

ITI: Startup Act 2.0 Offers Bipartisan Blueprint for New Jobs
The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) applauded the bipartisan Startup Act 2.0, introduced in the Senate today, as a way to put more Americans to work in innovative industries. READ MORE.

Huffington Post: The Startup Act 2.0 Offers Immigration Solutions That Will Create American Jobs
What do Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.) have in common? Not much when it comes to their voting records. But today these Republican and Democratic Senators did something we haven't seen in long time -- they showed uncommon bipartisan leadership by introducing the Startup Act 2.0. READ MORE.

Roanoke Times: A small but crucial immigration reform
Warner's latest bipartisan project brings together fellow Democrat Chris Coons of Delaware and Republicans Marco Rubio of Florida and Jerry Moran of Kansas. The four senators introduced legislation Tuesday to encourage startup companies through targeted tax incentives and smarter use of university research initiatives. But the central focus of the Startup Act 2.0 is an effort to modernize a small but crucial slice of U.S.immigration policy. READ MORE.

Christian Science Monitor: Is Congress broken? Startup Act shows what can work.
Much of the time, Congress is, well, Congress. Gridlocked, combative, dysfunctional are only three of the adjectives that might be routinely applied. But some days, like Tuesday, there is a hint of a different institution – you might call it the Voltaire Congress, refusing to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. READ MORE. 

Progressive Policy Institute: Start-up 2.0: Another Welcome Boost for Entrepreneurs
This week, a bipartisan group of Senators has introduced a summer sequel worth watching in what they’ve dubbed “Startup Act 2.0.” This legislation would take one more big step in giving young businesses three crucial ingredients for success: talent, time and money. READ MORE. 

Richmond Times-Dispatch: Startup Act 2.0: Good move
This is worthwhile legislation. The Times-Dispatch salutes the bipartisan quartet and applauds Warner's participation. READ MORE

Rochester Business Journal: Startup strategy
A bipartisan quartet of freshman senators on Capitol Hill has taken on two challenges: bolstering America's position as the world's most entrepreneurial nation and proving that Congress can get something done in an election year. READ MORE. 

Bloomberg: Help U.S. Economy With Visas for the Best and Brightest
Plans to loosen U.S. restrictions on high-skilled immigrants have been kicking -- and getting kicked -- around Washington for years. The latest comes from a bipartisan group of senators, who last week introduced legislation to ease the logjam on visas. READ MORE.