Political Quotes

“When the President vetoed this product liability bill, Mr. Speaker, he also vetoed heart transplants, brain shunts, medical devices for replacement of knees, of hips, of shoulders, 100 different types of medical devices that are lifesaving or health improving, borne by some 8 million Americans currently in the use of those medical devices and who knows how many yet to come who will require them. Why? Because the suppliers of vital elements that go into these medical devices have been going out of business or refusing to deal with the manufacturers of medical devices because of the large suits, liability suits that loom in front of them should they dare to supply a piece of plastic or a piece of wood or a piece of some other kind of element that goes into one of these medical devices, even if that little piece of that medical device had nothing to do at all with the injury that brought about the liability suit in the first place. What this bill would have done, if the President would have signed it, would have been to release some of these companies from the burden of supplying some of these vital elements to medical devices, and we then in the Congress could rejoice on making ample supplies of these medical devices available to our fellow Americans.”