Political Quotes

“I am a cosponsor of this bill. I am one of a handful of Democrats who have supported the work of my good friend, Senator Gorton from the State of Washington, and Senator Jay Rockefeller, our colleague from West Virginia, who are the lead sponsors of this legislation. I raise the point with the Democratic leader; I go back to the days of Jack Danforth and working on a proposal some 10 years ago on product liability legislation, tort reform. As someone who authored, along with Senator Domenici, the securities litigation reform bill and uniform standards, I am very interested in seeing us get a bill done here. We have indications the White House is going to be supportive of this legislation. For the first time, we might be able to do something about this issue. I am inclined to agree with the managers and principal authors of this bill that we probably ought to keep this bill pretty clean. But I cannot imagine at this point filing cloture on this bill. I will fight with every power in me as a Member of this body to see to it that any Member has a right to raise amendments about this bill.”