John Conyers: “I cannot help but respond to the gentleman from Virginia, a very well-known lawyer on the committee, that this is the…”

“I cannot help but respond to the gentleman from Virginia, a very well-known lawyer on the committee, that this is the kind of law that people, working-class people and poor people, have been looking to get a chance to help them bring their cases into court. I simply find that preposterous. I think it goes against all of the testimony that we have heard before the committee. For him to suggest that this is just what working-class people need to get into court means that he has now thrown the bill out to the winds and this is just a free-wheeling rhetorical debate. The American Bar Association, whose letter I just recited, said that the bill would work a harm to just people that the gentleman thinks it would be a benefit to, and I remind the gentleman that the American Bar Association is made up of more defendants' lawyers than even plaintiffs' lawyers.”