Howell Heflin: “In other words, it is not controlling on actions that are tried in State courts, such as the Senator's State and such as…”

As I understand it, this has been shown to the Department of Agriculture, and they have reservations pertaining to this. They are in the process right now of probably becoming involved in a lawsuit. Therefore, they object to it, and…

I might inquire of the Senator if there was testimony--I do not know whether it was this year or last year--from the American Insurance Association, one of their officers, which basically said that passage of the bill would not, I repeat…

I would like to also add my words about Mike Synar. He and I worked together on bankruptcy legislation as well as farm legislation. He was a great Congressman and will be truly missed.

I was speaking of the GAO report. I do not have it before me. But as I recall the GAO report indicated that the provisions of the bill--maybe it was a predecessor of it--in their judgment would not reduce transactions costs, and that one…