"This is a very important hearing and the way I like to put this is instead of you coming to Congress, Congress is coming to you."
"We cannot continue to allow the government to enact rules and regulations that squeeze small businesses until they close their doors."
"I urge you to stand up for us and protect us from oppressive government overreach from bureaucrats in Washington, D.C."
"I think they're ultimately trying to expand the scope of people that are covered by it, and I frankly think that the General Counsel and his political allies are interested in expanding the collective..."
"This is an epidemic. This is one of the biggest drug problems that we have in this country, prescription drug abuse, one that has really gotten out of control."
"I have witnessed firsthand people's careers, people's lives, people's families being ruined, and people actually losing their life as a result of prescription drug abuse."
"Because as all of us know, when you're in a hole you stop digging. And we're in a hole here and we need to stop digging."
"the fact is that I am a free market person. And the fact is that I believe the free market works."
"I am not seeing where more government regulation is going to solve this problem. This seems to me to be a solution in search of a problem."
"I am a WIC vendor in my retail--or I was in my retail business, but do you ever audit them to see if they are indeed buying those products"
"Give me a break. A warning letter? I mean, seriously. They know that is wrong."