The competition that this bill would provide is healthy for the marketplace and will clearly benefit consumers.

Because the national competition happens at the National Society for Human Resource Management conference, you will have 20,000 to 40,000 people there.

They pretty much gutted the bill.

We don't have a lot in our toolbox to begin with as far as economic development tools. This one, even though it's not used, the threat of eminent domain is always a tool for economic development.

You'll be hard-pressed to find a chamber of commerce that does not support retaining this. It's a powerful tool to have at your disposal.

We had an up and down day. For our first day of competition and against the competition we had, I was pretty pleased. This is a good tournament for us because we can see how many more areas we need to work on.