Jack Fields: “I thought he was one of the finest reporters whom I ever had the pleasure to work with.”

Mr. Chairman, let me, first of all, address what I almost hear as a basic assumption that the underlying piece of legislation is bad. This is not a bad piece of legislation. This legislation is aimed at the filing of frivolous lawsuits…

If someone is breaking the law, as the gentleman alleges, as a Mafia mobster, that person would still be penalized under the criminal sections of RICO.

we had the opportunity, first, to work on that piece of legislation. Second, the dynamics in this House and the Senate have changed. If you look at the requirements for explicit pleadings of scienter in our particular statute, I do not see…

But, again, I want to emphasize to this House that while this is my last speech, this is my last legislative act, the real magic here, which I hope is demonstrable to the rest of the House, is the fact that people who come from very…