Melvin Watt: “When a manufacturer in Prague manufactures a dangerous product, knowing or in reasonable judgment should know that that…”

“When a manufacturer in Prague manufactures a dangerous product, knowing or in reasonable judgment should know that that product is going to end up here in the United States, the question becomes whether we should protect the manufacturer in Prague or whether we should protect the individual citizen in Nebraska or North Carolina or Michigan or Illinois or Ohio, what is our responsibility and what are the public policy considerations here? I want to submit to the chairman that if that manufacturer in Prague knows or reasonably should have known that the individual citizen in Nebraska could end up being injured by that dangerous product, it is our responsibility, as Members of this Congress, to protect American citizens and not to look out for the manufacturer in Prague. So that is the choice we have got, and it is just a matter of fairness.”