Tom Carper: “I want to say to Senator Feingold, we had a number of amendments that have been presented to us today, all thoughtful…”

“I want to say to Senator Feingold, we had a number of amendments that have been presented to us today, all thoughtful amendments by some of our very finest Members. I was not able to support any of them. The one amendment that I have literally worked, as he knows, behind the scenes to try to get included in a managers' amendment is this amendment or some variation of this amendment. I think the underlying point you make--if a class action is filed in a State court and that is turned down and there is an effort to move it to Federal court, that is turned down, and then there is another effort to move that class action from State court to Federal court, we limit the second time through. There has to be a response in 60 days to the appeal by the Federal judge on the appeal. That would sort of beg the question, Should not there maybe be some kind of time limit as well on the first time there is an attempt to remove the case to the Federal court?”