Political Quotes

There are many in my State who believe that this is a sideways effort by the Biden administration to force small businesses to pay what Congress could not force them to pay through legislation of $15.00 per hour.

I totally recognize these are really complex companies and structures, and so I do not--I think the idea here is that we want them to be working and to contain costs, and not just be acting in their own self-interest.

I represent an area that has five of the 13 refineries left in the State of California.

It's complicated, it's difficult... to take a boiler maker or a very highly skilled industrial welder or electrician and try to find another job for them.