Political Quotes

“this week in my GOP colleagues' mad, frenzied dash to the 100-day finish line of the so- called Contract With America, this body is being presented with a series of bills that will effectively strip away the rights of average, hard-working citizens to obtain access to our Nation's courts for the resolution of their legitimate disputes. Today we start with H.R. 988, the misnamed Attorney Accountability Act, which would be better titled the ``No Money, No Status, No Justice Act of 1995.'' H.R. 988 is an absolute perversion of the ideals upon which our civil justice system in the United States was established, Mr.Chairman. Filled with gimmicky, feel-good phrases such as ``loser pays'' and ``honesty in evidence,'' this legislation is just another public relations ploy thought up by the Republican leadership's spinmeisters-- as with the rest of the contract--that has little substantive, factual evidence to support its propositions. My friends on the opposite side of the aisle would like to have the American people believe that H.R. 988 is absolutely necessary to stem the tide of frivolous litigation that they purport is incapacitating our civil justice system.”