Tom Cotton, a Republican senator from Arkansas, attacked &pizza on the Senate floor on Wednesday (yes, in 2019 that’s a sentence describing a news event).

Cotton was giving a speech about corporations threatening to boycott or otherwise object to states that have passed restrictive abortion legislation. He mentioned a full-page advertisement that ran in the New York Times last week, which said that limiting abortion access “goes against our values and is bad for business.” Among the more than 100 signatories of the letter was Michael Lastoria, the CEO and co-founder of &pizza, the do-it-yourself pizza chain that has grown from its first outpost on H Street NE to more than 30 locations.

“You can’t claim to be a people-first company if you don’t support equality in the workplace,” Lastoria tweeted last week to explain why he signed the letter. “Standing up for reproductive health care is supporting equality in the workplace.”

It’s not Lastoria’s first foray into advocacy—he spoke in favor of D.C. raising its minimum wage in 2016, and Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the legislation outside of an &pizza shop. (Bowser, unlike Cotton, has been public about her love of their fast casual pies.) More recently, &pizza gave away more than 20,000 free pizzas to federal workers during the government shutdown and partnered with José Andrés to provide gratis food for feds.

But Cotton said on the Senate floor that &pizza is a “perfect example” of CEOs who think “babies are ‘bad for business'” because they “want company men and women, not family men and women. They’ll support your individuality and self-expression just so long as you stay unattached and on the clock.”

Cotton’s proof? While &pizza will pony up the money for employees to get the company’s ampersand logo tattooed on them as part of the company’s benefits, Cotton says the company doesn’t offer paid maternity leave to all of its employees. “So if you want to be a walking billboard for your employer, &pizza will foot the bill,” Cotton said. “But if you’re pregnant with a child, tough luck.” (District employees will be eligible for paid family leave next summer, thanks to a bill passed by the D.C. Council.)

And then, to add insult to injury, Cotton said that he wouldn’t call for a boycott of the pizza chain, which has a location inside Capitol Hill’s Rayburn Building, but said that “you could just skip them because their pizza is lousy, anyway.”

&pizza declined to comment to DCist about Cotton’s speech. But Lastoria did respond to Cotton on Twitter.

A live look at @SenTomCotton trying to tie pizza to his defense of making decisions for women pic.twitter.com/fj2R7ttzix

— michael lastoria (@__lastoria) June 20, 2019

So if Cotton thinks &pizza is “lousy,” what kind of slices might he have grown accustomed to in Arkansas? According to The Daily Meal, the Natural State’s best purveyor of pies is Wood Stone Craft Pizza in Fayetteville. The joint has four stars on Yelp, though someone with the username Oscar on Foursquare wrote in 2015 that “I found a hair wrapped around the chicken in my pizza.”