Let us pass this law and then we will have some experience and see how many cases are brought that they cannot prove substantial justification. To take the gentlewoman's version of things, every case is substantially justified. I am telling Members in the real world lives are ruined, people are bankrupted, and it is not just, and we have a chance to remedy it and we ought to. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
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