Debbie Dingell: “I was, as this body knows, the individual who was in on addressing the problem of product liability early on. Our…”

“I was, as this body knows, the individual who was in on addressing the problem of product liability early on. Our committee began the effort by moving out the first piece of legislation that ever came out of a congressional committee on this. It is my view that product liability lawsuits have been much abused, and that serious and adverse economic consequences have struck the American economy, the American worker, and American businessman because of that, and I intend to vote to override the President's veto. But, Mr. Speaker, I want to make it clear that I do it with a sense of heaviness in my heart. Without any ill will towards my good friend from Virginia [Mr. Bliley], I want to make it plain that I think that was a very bad speech. This is not an issue which we should make a partisan issue. It is a broad question of the public good. Are we going to correct an abuse which is here?”