John Conyers: “Just answer this one, please. Are you aware or are you not? You are not. Then I suggest you look at section 1715, and…”

“Just answer this one, please. Are you aware or are you not? You are not. Then I suggest you look at section 1715, and you will see that this request that you are making, as one-sided as it is, is already in the bill that I guess you are supporting; and so it is redundant. I am impressed by the fact that defense attorneys' fees are not to be revealed, but plaintiffs' attorneys' fees are to be revealed, giving up yet another secret of the practice, namely, that defense lawyers frequently get far more than plaintiffs' lawyers. So thanks a lot for public disclosure. This is a very helpful amendment in trying to get what we call the vengeance of the ex-trial lawyers in Congress on their former profession.”