Political Quotes

“I would agree wholeheartedly with you. In fact, we can extend that almost into every area of small business. For those who have experience in manufacturing and in any number of business areas or construction that deal with the use of various chemicals, resins and compounds, there is a compliance requirement called Material Safety Data Sheets, MSDS compliance, which requires a very large amount of documentation in a business. We look at Portland cements, which are very large businesses that have these burdens placed upon them that are very high, but it's even in very small businesses. In working with many manufacturing companies in my time before coming to Congress, in the 12 years before my coming to Congress, after I had left the Service, I saw that these regulations created an undue hidden tax on America's ability to compete. It's not the idea of being antiregulation. I think standards can be very good and very helpful, but it's the point at which that compliance is mandated and the context of that. A case in point, I think, that I saw that typified this more than anything else was the case with my dry cleaners that I had used for years before I ended up running for office. It's called Braxton's Cleaners. It was started by a couple of entrepreneurs who wanted to build this business. They built it. It grew. They had very high quality customer service.…”