Political Quotes

“I was just going to ask whether my colleague would yield for a question. My distinguished colleague from Connecticut is an extraordinarily experienced and able lawyer. He was U.S. attorney in Connecticut; for a long time, he was his State's attorney general, and I think he has argued more before the U.S. Supreme Court than perhaps anybody in modern history now in the Senate. One of his passions and one of the things he focused on in law enforcement was consumer protection, bringing to justice big entities that had done wrong to consumers. My question for him, if I may ask one, would be, are there circumstances--do you have experience of circumstances in which very big and powerful entities, corporations, or industries engaged in misconduct, even fraud, in which the individual harm to each of the consumers was not very big--a bogus $30 fee, a bogus $100 surcharge, something like that--but multiplied by thousands or tens of thousands of customers, it became an enormously lucrative fraud for the institution involved? Is that a situation that happens in real life, in your view, I ask my distinguished colleague?”