We need industry-wide standards to prohibit manufacturers and retailers of nicotine products from being able to sell products in youth-friendly dessert-and fruit-flavors like bubblegum, mango, mint, and menthol.

We want a shortage of high-cost, illegal, harmful loans.

it is for the people of North Carolina through their State elected representatives, it is their decision to make.

This is a perfect example of the OCC trying to preempt States' ability to protect their people from unlawful, high-cost, harmful loan products.

the exact same relationship that we successfully defeated and ran out of North Carolina, it will be challenging for us to win such a case in the future.

Protecting our constituents is our highest calling, and I am proud to stand up for hardworking North Carolinians like Anita.

The idea that somebody would make a contribution and then be reimbursed by a corporation or an individual, that's a straw donor. That would be a violation of the law.

It would be illegal for this to be happening.

I think we are better off now than we were a year ago as a result--at least with regard to the five, as a result of the settlement.