"I am very concerned that doubling the Federal minimum wage will put a halt to a lot of that progress and will really gum up the works of job creation for workers without a lot of skills and without a lot of experience."
"My Democrat colleagues don't want to believe that we can produce economic opportunity in concert with growing wages without the government interfering."
"This one size fits all, top down government regulation will destroy millions of hard-earned jobs and turn our growing economy and wage growth into decline."
"I urge this subcommittee to seriously consider and support this request."
"Failure to provide funding that secures spent nuclear fuel will only cause further financial hardship on the American taxpayer."
"The biggest restraint that we see, obviously that the tax reforms and tax cuts and the jobs act has done exactly what we had hoped it would do and that was grow the economy."
"I mean, we cannot seem to obey the laws we have, whether it is immigration or drugs or whatever."
"I just pray that prayers continue to flow there because it is the only way that I know that we can try to--I mean it is the only way that I can deal with things like this."
"I just wanted to let you know how proud Georgia is of you and your work here in this body and at USDA."
"It's obvious that people paid into a program, paid premiums, and that the labor organizations and the employers adjusted benefits at will."
"Congress sets the premium rate. The premium rate is set by Congress."