I thank the gentlewoman from Florida. I am going to end, Madam Speaker, with two cases because they are both egregious in their own right. One is about Irene Morissette, an 87-year-old Catholic nun. Now think about this for a minute. An…

Actually, no, I don't. It sounds like someone talking about repairing one's car, but, you know . . .

This legislation, and again, they are marking it up right now in the Judiciary Committee, is going to return to the consumer, return to the employee, the opportunity to not sign a forced arbitration agreement when they are at the most…

That is absolutely correct. And it is really important for us to make the public aware that whether you know it or not you are probably signing these arbitration clauses every time you sign up for a particular program, a particular…

Oftentimes it does. In one of the cases that our colleague from New York reflected on, it was costing her hundreds of thousands of dollars. In this case I am going to speak about, the patient, the client at the nursing home had to pay…

Well, because there is no justice. Oftentimes, as we have pointed out, these arbitration claims end up benefiting the company as opposed to the individual. So few of them actually result in claims being paid out to the consumer or the…

So this is a consumer who went to get a package of three massages at Massage Envy?

I am proud to join my colleagues in the Democratic Women's Caucus in hosting this Special Order hour to raise awareness of the damage done by mandatory arbitration and of our support for H.R. 1423, the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal…

She signed up for it and then decided she didn't want to do it and didn't read the fine print that said she had to go to arbitration?

I thank the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky) for her comments on this Special Order. As she said at the end, she is one of the loudest voices to make sure there is justice in this country. Madam Speaker, we could tell many more…

It is now my pleasure to yield to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Bustos), my good friend and colleague who also has spent a great deal of time working on this issue of forced arbitration as it relates to sexual harassment.

I thank the gentlewoman from California again for her outstanding leadership. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Hill), one of our new colleagues, but not new to fighting on behalf of women.