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I just got a fax tonight from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals judge in Shreveport, LA. I was in Shreveport last weekend. He told me about this and promised to send me a fax on it and authorized me to tell the story tonight. This is a…
I also wanted to point out I am not sure that everyone in America understands that it does take some real courage on the part of this House to take on some of these people. The Sierra Club is livid right now. They are livid that we…
I want to thank him and again particularly express my appreciation for accepting the challenge to help us in this investigation, to get to the bottom of this, put a stop to it, then eventually to change some laws in this country so that…
before I begin tonight, I want to call to the Nation's attention the fact that there are quite a few folks in my home State of Louisiana who are indeed suffering tonight. Yesterday and up until about 1 o'clock this morning we were deluged…
Finally, on a public policy note, my clients are becoming deeply distressed about how the agency appears to be more responsive to, and to some extent acting in collusion with, representatives of the environmental community with respect to…
Today, at a press conference here in Washington, I announced a call for an investigation into activities of the Environmental Protection Agency in region 6, Dallas, activities which clearly violated the rights of a citizen in my district…
Mr. Chairman, I, too, rise in support of the amendment of the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Traficant]. Let me first acknowledge that for the several Congresses we have just come through I have had the extraordinary privilege of chairing the…
I want to remind Members that not all the alligators in America live in the swamps of Louisiana. This is a bad piece of regulation, and I think we have got some alligators to deal with until we wrestle it to the ground.
Mr. Chairman, the amendment provides for capping the fees that are assessed for inspecting small vessels at $300 and $600, more closely related to the actual cost of inspecting these small vessels, and requiring the Coast Guard instead to…
Mr. Chairman, I particularly want to address these comments to my good friend, the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Coble], with whom I have worked many, many years on Coast Guard matters and for whom I have the deepest personal high…
I want to congratulate all who have played a role in bringing this conference committee forward. When we announced the formation of our little band of conservative Democrats called the Coalition, we promised America two things. We promised…
Mr. Chairman, there are two classes of stockholders whose interests can be affected by a 10B(5) statute. There is a class of investors who believes they have been defrauded, and they ought to be able to file a lawsuit. Under this bill they…
Mr. Dingell has been committed to the issue of product liability reform for many, many years. This was in 1988 when our committee finally agreed upon a product liability reform bill and produced it for the House, that bill unfortunately…
Mr. Chairman, we live in an age when attorneys are not very popular. That was evident when the movie ``Jurassic Park'' was such a big hit, and the only person eaten by that monster in ``Jurassic Park'' was a lawyer, and audiences stood and…
I think a more important statistic, if the gentleman wants to argue statistics, is that the regime of law that they are defending they do not want to change today, according to that Vincent O'Brien-Richard Hodges study, found that…
The answer is it could, because under rule XI the fees can be imposed on the attorney. However, my problem with it is bigger than that. The problems are the following: First, rule XI does not allow sanctions in discovery proceedings. In…
The answer is that the judge has discretion to fix that undertaking. He can fix it at $1, $1,000, $2,000 $10,000 whatever it requires to guarantee that in effect the losing party is going to be able to respond to his order to shift the…
I, too, want to say not only a good word in favor of this amendment but in favor of its author. The gentleman from Oregon [Mr. Wyden] has been a stalwart advocate for the proposition that when accountants do detect fraud that they make it…
this legislation does say now that we are providing a method by which the judge can impose fees upon the losing party if in fact the suit never should have been brought if it would not be unjust to do so and if it would not be…
I would just point out the language in the bill is much improved over the language last year that the gentleman from Texas and I offered. If the language we had in the bill was so good last year, I want to know why we did not get a markup…
I offer an amendment, the Mineta-Tauzin amendment. Amendment offered by Mr. Tauzin: Page 26, beginning on line 1, strike section 37 through page 28, line 2, and insert the following: ``SEC. 37. APPLICATION OF SAFE HARBOR FOR…
My question to the gentleman is this: Why should we say to a citizen that chose a private investment fund to make his investments, "You're going to have a set of laws that relate to you, but if you invest in a government pension fund, you…
Reclaiming my time, this is not an additional amendment. This is a substitute for your own amendment. The idea is before I and other Members who support this bill are willing to accept your amendment which deletes language from the…
What he has done is not made up language. The language is from the latest expression of the courts, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, interpreting the Supreme Court decision in Hochfelder, and what the court…
I do ask him to yield just to say a word thanks, a word of thanks not only to the chairman, who has been extraordinarily cooperative, the gentleman from California [Mr. Cox], and others who have worked with us to moderate this bill, but…
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