Political Quotes

“I want Members to look at what this amendment says, at page 13. It covers anything of a medical character. It caps pain and suffering and noneconomic damages at $250,000. Let us look at some of the things for which a person will get $250,000 maximum for pain and suffering and other noneconomic damages. A person is blinded, a person is rendered a paraplegic, loss of a leg or an arm, loss of reproductive capacity. A woman can never have a child again, she gets $250,000. How can this body justify the enactment of a proposal which has this, on which there has been no hearings whatsoever; no hearings, no testimony, nobody knows what this does. It springs like Hebe from the brain of Jove, without the faintest appreciation of what is done, without the least awareness of what it accomplishes. Think of the hurt and pain and suffering that you are not properly compensating with this outrageous amendment. This is an outrageous amendment. I cannot in conscience see how I can vote for it, and I cannot imagine anybody else who could contemplate voting for this kind of outrage. No hearings, capping pain and suffering, without the faintest acknowledgment of what it will in fact cost. Let me remind the Members, a citizen can get more on workmen's compensation, on railroad compensation, or on maritime compensation than they could get under this.”