It is not government's place to be telling our small business owners how they should be interacting.

When you expand that and you look at different programs that are available, really it is that ability to stay together as a family to get through the hard times that makes it very, very real.

The key to that being temporary, again, being a bridge from one point to another.

I think the importance--and I would like to associate myself with the remarks of the other Members--of you being here today is really your day in court.

I have always thought that, coming from the private sector my whole life, I know incentives work.

This is not a political thing for me, based on a Republican idea or a Democrat idea. This is about what is best for this country.

People in Washington don't know what we are going through.

I don't know of anyplace else in the world that people are more generous with their own money and their own time.

We are also anti-gun violence, and we believe that in this debate Congress should look not toward special interests and ideology, which push us apart, but toward compromise, which brings us together.

But rights demand responsibility. And this right does not extend to terrorists, it does not extend to criminals, and it does not extend to the mentally ill.

I have heard from some gun owners who are worried that Congress is going to outlaw features that they really like in guns.