"What is the best assurance that you can provide people to give them confidence that these issues are being addressed and that the use of Boeing aircraft is safe?"
"You have a Department of Labor in this Biden Harris administration, under the direction of unconfirmed Acting Secretary Julie Su, that is coming after your tips, simply by issuing regulations."
"Sadly, the Biden-Harris administration has not listened."
"We have seen this in California with the COVID shutdowns, and other very bad policies that caused restaurants to shut down."
"This ruling was a win for both workers and the small businesses."
"The current system gives tipped workers the opportunity to thrive, and it does not just help them, it helps the restaurants and small businesses that employ them."
"I think that is an important takeaway from this hearing is that they are coming after your tips."
"So, if I have this right, we have an unelected, not democratically accountable body, that has decided on its own to make policy not just for California but effectively for the entire country..."
"this would raise costs for consumers, making the experience of inflation worse in California and across the country."
"the whole purpose of this regulation, the ostensible purpose, which is to reduce emissions, it would actually do just the opposite. It is a self-undermining, self-defeating regulation."
"we have really a crisis of democratic legitimacy in California, where we have an agency, a massive bureaucracy, CARB, that is making tectonic changes to our society, not just in California but across ..."