Joe Scarborough: “I am a friend of small restaurant owners, I am a friend of small businesses. My voting record over 3 or 4 years has…”

“I am a friend of small restaurant owners, I am a friend of small businesses. My voting record over 3 or 4 years has shown that. In fact, I think the gentleman has called me a right-wing extremist because of a lot of my votes on less taxes and less regulation, less Federal spending. But I also recognize that small business people are people that are song writers, they are people that are doing things that may not fit our national constituency, and they deserve protection as much as landowners deserve protection. If we want to talk about something that really hits home with me in my district, because I am always fighting for property rights, stopping extremists from coming in and having improper takings, I think we can apply that to this situation where we have an amendment in the Sensenbrenner amendment that constitutes nothing less than an improper taking; and where there is a taking, there needs to be just and full compensation, and our Constitution says that. That is why I think this does violence to the Constitution's provision and the Fifth Amendment.”