Political Quotes

“What the gentleman [Mr. Tauzin] is referring to are class action matters. Those are matters which really do not relate to the business that we are discussing. Here we are talking about communities, cities, States, local units of government, governmental agencies which need to go in and sue. These are not class actions in the sense that we have been talking about in the basic legislation which we address, the actions to which we are addressing ourselves with this amendment are not class actions. No professional plaintiffs, no bodies, no illegal behavior of the kind that would be condemned by this legislation. It would be illegal for a county treasurer to accept a bounty, and indeed if he were to do so, he would first of all be committing a crime, but second of all if he were to do so, he would be responsible for paying those moneys over to the county or to the governmental agency of which he was a part because that money would belong to the county as opposed to belonging to him.”