Pete Sessions: “I just hosted and chaired a hearing on the question of restaurants that sell food that might cause obesity. The question…”

“I just hosted and chaired a hearing on the question of restaurants that sell food that might cause obesity. The question is, Is a restaurant that makes a good cake responsible for somebody's obesity? They made the product that perhaps made the person overweight and obese, but they are not responsible for it. Should Congress act? I think it is perfectly appropriate and fair that the Congress set the rules for litigation in America. We established when the statute of limitations runs. We established a lot of rules. In fact, we established basically that MTBE should be used. It was a congressional action that required this to be done before I arrived in the Senate. The question is this, Companies make a substance. Somebody else spills it in the environment. Now we are going to have the person who made it, because maybe they have good insurance, pay for cleaning up any place in America that this stuff was spilled? I don't think so. Of course, we have in this bill liability protection for ethanol, and the House stuck in the liability protection for MTBE.”