John Conyers actually said...

Members of the Committee, this is a hearing that may produce seriously flawed studies, that may make it difficult if not impossible to form ...

And so I want to try to turn off some of the wrath that may come down on punitive damages.

The whole idea is to inhibit wrongdoing by knowing that these kinds of legal results are available.

Now, what we have found is that only about 5 percent of the plaintiffs were awarded punitive damages.