Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

"When you do not pay attention to small business, we do not get the information we need to make the corrections."

"I have assured my colleagues that this is going to be done professionally, and it is hard to take a look at this rule and say this was done professionally."

"But we need to make a statement right now, and you need to be able to go back to other agencies that want to take this kind of shortcut."

"This is not some ethereal academic study that we are talking about here. This is about what goes into the purse at the end of the night, that helps people live."