I would ask the Chair to consider having a hearing on these victims that are in the papers and the news.

disproportionately victims are from the ranks of the poor, from people of color, and others who are in the worst position, in some ways, to protect themselves.

I don't think they should be enshrined in the Constitution.

I think that's akin to walking into the machine guns at this point in time.

We are concerned about destroying what we have had for years, a system of class actions to protect the little guy.

Somehow or another, Mr. Chairman, we have got to put our priorities in order, and we have got to look after human life and civil rights.

African-American lives count, too, and they are being killed on a regular basis and seen in this country, and nobody in this Congress seems to care that has authority to have a hearing or to bring a bill to a vote.

This bill will effectively wipe out Rule 23.

We know the 1983 rule had a disproportionally chilling impact on civil rights cases, and that is most concerning to me and to others.

We just came through the reenactment of the Selma march. We have seen so many failures in our legislative and political system, to where we haven't moved forward on civil rights; we moved backward.

Today, we consider H.R. 758, titled the 'Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act of 2015.'