On the recordMarch 9, 2017
I very much appreciate my colleague's remarks there. I want to make one point before I yield to my distinguished colleague from New York. Mr. Chairman, my colleague asked us to reckon with the fact that it is emotionally devastating for people to be sued, and, undoubtedly, it is in certain cases. But compare whatever it might feel like to be sued in whatever case he might have in mind with the outrageous emotional devastation caused by asbestos poisoning, by lead poisoning, by mass sexual harassment, sex discrimination, race discrimination, all of the torts that come to dominate what takes place in our courts. So if we are going to have a new emotional devastation standard, I would put the plaintiffs up against the large corporate defendants any day. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to my distinguished colleague from New York (Mr. Nadler).
