Jackie Speier actually said...

"It is wrong that it has gone on as long as it has without the Congress of the United States putting their big-people britches on."

"I wonder, Madam Chair, what it says about our military medical system that it is so bad that we have to actually shield it, that it could cost multiple billions of dollars to fully allow tort claims, ..."

"I encourage our colleagues on the Judiciary Committee to do so and to have an open debate on this issue that impacts our brave men and women who serve this great Nation."

"The amendment to the Federal Tort Claims Act is an amendment that I am introducing as a bill later today. And it will be named after Sergeant Stayskal."