Orrin Hatch: “That chart is amazing. I don't agree with all those changes, but we made them to accommodate our friends on the other…”

“That chart is amazing. I don't agree with all those changes, but we made them to accommodate our friends on the other side. Just look at all these changes. No one can tell us we are not doing everything we can to make this bill a consensus bill and to be fair to everybody. We know there are a lot of people who will be compensated under this bill who have never suffered a bit from asbestos, but we have given the benefit of the doubt. Many of them are union workers who have smoked all their lives and got cancer from smoking but have had something to do with asbestos at one time or another in their career but probably have shown no feasible asbestos. Literally thousands and thousands, hundreds of thousands, will be compensated. There comes a point where you have to say, Let's do what is right here. Let's not just keep loading this bill up so you can beat your breast and claim you get more money, more blood out of these companies. Moreover, even though our original claim values would have on average provided more money to legitimate claimants, we increased the values even more and we removed most collateral source offsets to ensure more of the award goes directly to the claimant.”