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about 4 or 5 weeks ago I took a special order talking about a judge in Arkansas, in Little Rock, a Federal judge who has close political ties to the current Governor, Jim Guy Tucker, and President Clinton, and particularly the First Lady…
I have played golf at the expense of people raising money for leukemia research and for cancer research so the taxpayers do not have to.
No. The people who put on fundraisers for cancer research are organizations, not lobbyists.
Will the gentleman vote for an amendment to your bill to limit campaign contributions from PACs to $1,000? Because I am going to introduce it, and I want to see if the gentleman will vote for it because you are getting all these $5,000…
The fact of the matter is, will the gentleman vote to limit your campaign contributions to $1,000?
The gentleman is going to get that chance, because we are going to propose that amendment to your bill.
Mr. Chairman, this legislation in a tougher form, in a tougher form, passed the Senate with 73 Members of that body voting for it. Members who were here before, conservatives, liberals, moderates, they are not for Government censorship…
I know that this bill has a great deal of merit and a lot of hard work has gone into it, and I think the rule, with a few exceptions, is a pretty good rule. But when I appeared before the Committee on Rules a couple of days ago, I…
the reason I am not supporting the rule is simply because I was told we would have a straight up or down vote. Let me just get to the crux of the problem. The American people, 90 percent of the families, as has been said, want the ability…
This is going to be a very confusing period as we discuss and debate the chairman's mark because we are going to be talking about several different issues, and I would just like to point out that the gentleman's amendment is likely to…
Let me just say that AID, like every agency of Government, needs to be fiscally responsible. We have a huge national debt, we have huge deficits, and this House and the Senate are trying our dead level best to get control of runaway…
After the President signs the bill, the time starts. Then the requirement starts. Not after we pass it here in the House.
Many times they are asked of children in primary and secondary education, way down below the senior high school level.
let me read once again, since the gentleman said that this was mostly high school seniors, these were middle school students, we are talking about children in the 10, 11, 12-year-old age range. Listen to this question. It is very…
We do not believe Federal moneys should be used for these kinds of questionnaires.
But those questions are asked of children in the schools in the education system.
And the gentleman keeps talking about a contingency basis, but many of those are on hourly rate, and so the plaintiff does pay legal fees in many of these cases on an hourly rate, and it is pretty doggone high. So this contingency thing is…
Let me just say that I think that a 25-percent penalty is an inducement for settlement. The gentleman keeps acting like it is nothing. Twenty-five percent of the legal fees of the defendant can be an awful lot of money, especially in a…
I believe that if there is a frivolous lawsuit filed there ought to be a penalty assessed on the plaintiff. I believe that should be the case. I do not believe, however, it should be a 100 percent losers paying totally, and the reason I…
But I do not think I agree with that. At least there is 25 percent penalty, a flat 25 percent right off the top. Let me just say something about the amendment you referred to. The problem with your amendment that you suggested as an…
Let me just make two comments. First of all, many of the States are working on similar legislation of this right now as far as State litigation is concerned. We all know that. I believe that what we do here today will serve as a model for…
So that would be a total of $50,000 that he would be out as far as legal obligations. For his shoulder injury, that is a permanent impairment, he now is going to get a $25,000 settlement in reality.
I really believe we should take a hard look at having a lower percentage than 100 percent. I think 25 percent sounds reasonable.
Reclaiming my time, the man has a permanent disability. Because of the jury's decision, he is going to end up with $25,000, and he has a lifetime of pain and suffering. It just seems to me there ought to be some balance in this. For the…
10 days before the trial, this is a very contentious case, the defense has two attorneys working on it at 10 hours a day, 20 hours a day at $100 an hour, that is $2,000 a day, but I think that is a low fee for some of these attorneys. Say…
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