Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I would urge the body, we are going to have amendments which will address these particular concerns which have been highlighted. I think after Members carefully listen to what we have to say, they will agree with us that this is deja vu all over again. What we have here is the 1977 amendments, where once again the effort is simply to relitigate all the cases because the results did not turn out as we wanted them, and then try to set up new regulations and rules of evidence, in order to try to increase the number of awards that are being granted. That is what is being done. But in 1977, that is when, by the way, the debt began to grow. Not before then. It came after 1977, and went up to $1.5 billion. There was a complete catastrophe, consensus legislation, that eliminated all these rules and regulations about trying to have evidence that is going to help your person win and so forth and so on, and it has worked to a degree, but we also had mammoth taxes in the private industry. But it is still going down hill. The trust fund is $4 billion in debt. I verified that the other day. But bit by bit, we will be taking all of these changes that are in this bill and showing you how it is not going to help the people who really need the help, who are not getting that help.”