Frank Lautenberg: “We listen to the same rhetoric, decry the risk that our law enforcement people take when they go out to work and how we…”

“We listen to the same rhetoric, decry the risk that our law enforcement people take when they go out to work and how we really respect them--except that we do not want to give them the same environment that every ordinary citizen in this country has. We hear about the fact that if you get the criminals off the streets and they do not come out again, and then they go back again, what does it have to do with whether or not we block the suit from law enforcement personnel who have been injured, who have families who want redress for them having been killed at work? It has nothing to do with it. That is the whole thing. It is an obfuscation of what this bill is about. This bill does not change a bit with this amendment. It just reinforces what the bill says, and that is, take away people's rights to sue, people's rights for redress. Whether it is an errant gun manufacturer, a dealer, a distributor, an errant airline, or an errant car manufacturer, people should have the right to sue.”