Paul Coverdell: “Let us look at the lineup here. I read a letter yesterday I have from Little League Baseball. You have the United Way…”

“Let us look at the lineup here. I read a letter yesterday I have from Little League Baseball. You have the United Way, the Red Cross, the Navy League, the Air Force Association, the American Society of Association Executives. Who is on the other side here? What is the cast? It is those among the trial attorneys who simply cannot abide that there be any reform at all, including volunteers, from the protection of these kind of suits. That is never mentioned. But that is where the opposition is. We had a case from Senator Santorum who, in the last Congress, finally got the Emerson bill passed, which protected people who were giving food to homeless and starving people. It took the entire session and it was finally passed by unanimous consent in the waning hours of the last Congress--the same opponents. So here we are, trying to make it possible for Americans to respond to four Presidents: Clinton, Bush, Carter, and Ford; and here they are trying to block it.”