John Conyers: “I can suggest to you that the work product does not deserve much consideration here. But also I would like to point out…”

“I can suggest to you that the work product does not deserve much consideration here. But also I would like to point out to my friends, just as we lay to rest who is getting the money here, we cannot deny that the political action committees of corporations and organizations favoring tort reform contributed nearly $62 million between 1989 and 1994, as part of a multimillion dollar lobbying effort to overturn America's system of civil justice. The trial lawyers, trial lawyers, contributed that $5.8 million, one-tenth of the total of legal reform proponents who came together in a massive coalition.”