Jay Dickey: “I am a small business person in Pine Bluff, AR. My businesses are not gigantic. The volume of sales is not such that we…”

“I am a small business person in Pine Bluff, AR. My businesses are not gigantic. The volume of sales is not such that we can go around making corrections and additions and having inspections all the time, but yet in one summer's time I had an inspection from OSHA, EPA, the fire department, local fire department, the Americans With Disabilities Act inspection team came in, the health department, and a building inspector. What I am saying is this: That I am hoping, and I am listening carefully, if someone were to come and say, 'We cannot have these things applied to Congress because the wheels of justice would come to a grinding halt,' I'm going to say, 'I know that, because that is what exactly happens to small businesses.' I built a store in 1987, a restaurant in 1987, and the architects provided in that a ramp for us to have off-center, away from the front door. That ramp was kind of convoluted. It was kind of neat. It had the post for the light there, for the parking light, parking lot light, and then it went up and back around. The inspection we had said 'no,' you have to have that in the front door.”