Bill Pascrell: “I would like to respond to my friend from Texas. We went through a period of time in the first decade of this century of…”

“I would like to respond to my friend from Texas. We went through a period of time in the first decade of this century of U.S. prosecutors and attorneys looking at the subject of deferred prosecutions. I am talking about justice here. That is the bottom line. That is what we are talking about here. Instead of bringing corporations to trial that had violated the law-- and I am not an attorney. I am not the reason for two of my sons being attorneys, but I am not an attorney--they worked out a proposition. This is what they are trying to do, and this is what this is all about, if I could draw a comparison, which is you slap a corporation on the wrist, it pays a fine, and the fine becomes the cost of doing business. Mr. Speaker, this is going in the wrong direction. It is attacking a problem that does not exist instead of attacking a problem that does exist.”