"I hope we can come to what we call around here a budget agreement."
"I think it is important to point out what this means to Native programs throughout the United States."
"The purpose of ADA is to ensure access to disabled--to the public accommodations, provide appropriate remedial action for those who have suffered harm as a result of noncompliance."
"I worry that with California acting to curb these lawsuits, some of these serial litigants will try their trade in other states."
"There is an increasing number of lawsuits brought under the ADA that are based upon a desire to achieve financial settlements rather than achieve the appropriate modifications for access."
"Without question, the ACCESS Act would ensure that the ADA is used for its true purpose of guaranteed accessibility to public accommodations for all Americans."
"Is it reasonable to expect that every employee, having line authority over facility inspections also have 100 percent inspection rate criterion in his or her annual performance evaluation?"
"Every day that goes by not doing something, we just dig ourselves into a deeper hole."
"The topline message, Ranking Member, is that for law enforcement, we did not take a decrease over what we asked for in the 2016 President's budget."
"This, as she has said, is clearly unacceptable."
"This is just terrible."