John Hope Bryant: “I would just like to appeal to the common sense of the gentleman from Texas. This amendment, which they all have…”

“I would just like to appeal to the common sense of the gentleman from Texas. This amendment, which they all have handwritten at the last minute, says that deliberately from taking steps--for refraining from taking steps to discover whether or not one's own statements are false is reckless, but if the failure to investigate whether one's own statements were false was not deliberate, then that conduct is not considered to be reckless. How in the world could a failure to investigate whether or not one's own statements were false, that it was not deliberate, possibly justify as a way of exonerating one from responsibility? I ask, who has responsibility to make sure that your statement is not false in the first place?”