Angie Craig: “I stand to join my colleague from Arkansas this evening in offering this second-degree amendment. I must tell you, when…”

“I stand to join my colleague from Arkansas this evening in offering this second-degree amendment. I must tell you, when the Senator approached me, I was hesitant. I don't get involved in what I originally think is a private-sector relationship, a client relationship that can be none of our business here. But when the States attorneys general and the trial attorneys have come together to craft a universal or a national agreement that the Senator from Illinois approaches tonight as part of his amendment, and they approach us to make this national law, to make this the law of the land, it is now the public's business, without doubt. Clearly, the Senator from Arkansas has demonstrated that this evening. He has even clearly stated----”