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This might just be the year Silicon Valley infiltrates Capitol Hill.

First, start-ups and tech-company founders fought successfully to prevent SOPA, which some argued would expanded the government's ability to police the Internet, from becoming law. Then came the JOBS Act—which was largely aimed at lubricating the start-up process for the smallest companies—which seemed a sure sign of congressional interest in entrepreneurship.

Now, the Senate Small Business Committee, chaired by Senator Mary Landrieu, a Democrat from Louisiana, is working on the early iterations of what may become a landmark bill for entrepreneurs, poised to hit Congress some time this summer. Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship held a roundtable discussion on the matter, called Perspectives from the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Creating Jobs and Growing Businesses Through Entrepreneurship.

To read the full, original article click on this link: Are We Looking at the Seeds of an Entrepreneurship Bill? | Inc.com