John B. Breaux: “Or you can send to the Governor a strong note saying, 'This is not fair and representative. I want someone that--we need…”

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you the panel members.

I am for reforming the so-called class action litigation system we have in place. I think a strong majority of the Members of the Senate also favor a reform piece of legislation passing this body and ultimately being signed into law. But…

if we are going to look in the MARAD program for huge amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse compared to everything else, I would suggest that we're going to be spending a lot of time, with little results.

Let me suggest it is a program that is more popular today than the Congress that wrote it.