Political Quotes

“I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. DeSaulnier). I am really glad to introduce Mark DeSaulnier, who has experience with this particular legislation. Mr. DeSAULNIER. I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise to express my strong opposition to H.R. 2017. I do this in the context of my background and my professional life, 40 years in the restaurant business. I started as a busboy and a dishwasher. I have worked in chain restaurants and fast-food restaurants and owned multiple fine-dining restaurants in the Bay Area and have done consulting to restaurants throughout California. {time} 1015 I was an author along with a colleague in the State legislature. At that time, the first statewide menu labeling legislation in the country was in California. My colleague had been on the L.A. City Council, I had been in local government in the bay area, and we had started in local government doing this. We took 2 years, from 2006 to 2008, to work with a Republican administration and a Democratic leadership of both Houses in California. I worked with the California Restaurant Association, which I was a longtime member of. At the end of the day, we accommodated all people's interests, including the stakeholders in the pizza industry.…”