Political Quotes

“the majority leader, I think, makes a very powerful point; among them, points that are in support of the amendment that is currently pending before the Senate, which I offered on Thursday afternoon, an amendment which would put some reasonable caps on attorney's fees. As the majority leader notes in this article, the people who suffer the most from our current litigation system are, as he puts it, the little guy. He quotes a survey from the National Federation of Independent Business in a couple of States, Texas and Tennessee, which found that one-third to one-half of small businesses have been either sued or been threatened with suit to punitive damages. Because of this kind of lawsuit abuse, the majority leader notes that the Girl Scout Council, for example, in Washington, must sell 87,000 boxes of cookies each year just to pay for liability insurance. The average Little League's liability insurance jumped 1,000 percent in a recent 5-year period. Just a couple of examples of the fact that we are all paying the costs of this litigation system, the tort taxes, if you will.”