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Ed Markey: Is it not true that out of the 270,000 cases in Federal district court that this bill is only going to touch 300 of…

On the recordMarch 8, 1995
Is it not true that out of the 270,000 cases in Federal district court that this bill is only going to touch 300 of them, which only affects 125 companies per year, and yet the number of tens of thousands we are talking about a half of a half of a half of 1 percent of all of the law cases brought in Federal court in the course of a year? And the gentleman from Wisconsin is completely wrong in his statistical representations.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Discussing the limited impact of a bill on federal court cases.

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