Once again, we're holding a hearing that's designed to make the case that Congress should tilt the playing field in favor of corporate defendants and against those harmed by their wrongdoing.

I might as well have gone to the South Indian Ocean and tried to find that airplane. It would have been easier than to find a Republican who was willing to put his name on a Voting Rights Act.

And this Committee has not had one hearing on the Voting Rights Act, maybe as important of a law as exists to give people the most fundamental right: the right to vote, to have a say in who they elect.

We should not be the Gulag of the world which we pretty much are, putting more people in prison than any other country.

That is what America is about. You go around the country, and what do people talk about? America, civil justice system, the rule of law, and people getting democracy and the right to vote.

I thought we should be dealing with and continue to feel we should be dealing with Voting Rights Act and deprivation of rights under color of law.

They are as threatened, if not more threatened, by ISIL as we are.

We are letting basically anybody walk into court and say, 'We think this entity is a foreign sponsor of terrorism.'

Saudi Arabia is not on the list, right?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I welcome today's hearing on Senate Bill 2040, the 'Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act.'

It is good to bring home the bacon, but it is also good to make this place get together.