Political Quotes

“Today the Senate has passed by a convincing margin the product liability bill. It was a difficult and contentious effort, much akin to the debate that this area has generated over the last decade. I was pleased that the Senate saw fit to pass this legislation and am hopeful that a productive and successful conference with the House will follow and eventually that the President will sign this legislation into law. I have long supported product liability reform even when it began as a somewhat lonely effort over a decade ago. Finally, with a supportive Congress, it seems that we may be coming up with a bill that can actually become the law of the land. It must be noted that in order to preserve the best possible chance of reaching that result, other areas of legal reform, such as medical malpractice and broad tort reform, have been excluded. I joined in the effort to keep this bill clean from those additions but I want to state that I support reform in those areas as well and look forward to addressing them in the future. In the end, this bill represents a workable and reasonable balance for reforming the legal procedures and standards governing how one can seek redress for harm caused by faulty products.”