Gary Ackerman: “I thank the chairman. My name was cited, along with a list of other New Yorkers having opposed the original TRIA when it…”

“I thank the chairman. My name was cited, along with a list of other New Yorkers having opposed the original TRIA when it came to the floor. The reason we did so is not because of TRIA, it was because the minority side, the Republican side at the time, tried to use this as a vehicle to move tort reform and added all sorts of tort reform provisions to the TRIA bill, which we absolutely opposed because it was a politically motivated move and not because of TRIA.”