Mike Pence: “I do rise as a member of the Committee on the Judiciary in strong support of the rule and of the underlying legislation…”

“I do rise as a member of the Committee on the Judiciary in strong support of the rule and of the underlying legislation, the Class Action Fairness Act of 2002. I believe as a new Member of this institution that whatever laws that we pass, they ought to ever and always be judged by how they impact not the most prosperous or the most affluent in our country, but by how they impact the least of these; how the laws in this place impact the average, working, struggling American family. And in that, I agree with the sentiment expressed by the gentlewoman from California that this institution should be focused on the least of these and on struggling Americans. I just simply would offer that, today, the least of these ought not to include doctors, lawyers, and corporate executives, but rather it ought to include aggrieved families and hurting Americans like the employees of Enron or other litigants and plaintiffs in class action lawsuits who have been made the subject of a system that the Washington Post called bad and called corrupt in a recent March 9 editorial.”