James Lankford actually said...

"This Subcommittee will also hold a hearing examining the burden of Federal statutes and regulations placed on State and local governments."

"the determination of whether there is a fine and the amount depended on the mood of the investigator"

"The challenge is, once you go through that, you set a fine and then there is a process to have a conversation on the settlement."

"That shelf right there? We had to raise by six inches and we got a fine for it."