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Ernest Istook: “I believe this is a deadly amendment. I believe it is a damaging amendment. I think it is an amendment that fails to…”

On the recordMarch 9, 1995
I believe this is a deadly amendment. I believe it is a damaging amendment. I think it is an amendment that fails to take stock of reality. Under this bill, your losses must be one of two types: either they must be economic damages, as defined on page 20 of the bill, something that is a financial loss. Everything else is noneconomic damage. If you lose your sight, it is noneconomic damage. If you lose any other organ, your ears, your hearing, it is noneconomic damage. If you lose your arm, if you lose both legs, if you are paralyzed for the rest of your life, it is noneconomic damage. And it is capped; it is treated under the same cap as intangibles such as pain and suffering.
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Ernest Istook
Oklahoma
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Opposing an amendment related to damages in a legislative bill.

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