Political Quotes

“the pages of our newspapers have been filled with accounts of corporate abuse of investors and consumers. Part of the reason Oregon has the highest unemployment rate in America for over a year is the result of the Enron scandal and the California energy crisis. To make it harder for Oregonians who have been abused to seek legal redress is nothing short of outrageous. This legislation would severely undermine the ability of Americans to seek relief from activities that harm consumers, the environment and public health. We should be working in Congress to help mend the relationship between corporations and the American public, rather than promote measures like this which will make it more difficult for injured consumers to bring class-action lawsuits. By allowing corporations to move most class-action lawsuits from state courts, where they properly belong, into already overburdened federal courts and by imposing new procedural hurdles, the measure would delay, if not deny, justice to plaintiffs in legitimate class-action lawsuits.”