Political Quotes

“I want to compliment her and the other members of the Committee on Rules for fashioning a very fine and very fair rule to debate this important piece of litigation reform. I was pleased to hear the gentleman from Texas acknowledge the fairness of the rule, so I encourage all of my colleagues to support the rule when it comes up for a vote. But I would like to address the other issue the gentleman raised, and, that is to somehow try to associate this with Enron. Enron's class action lawsuit is already in Federal court. The fact of the matter is, it is in Federal court because the plaintiffs in that case chose to bring it there because it involves Federal questions and because it will be a better place to handle class action lawsuits because our Federal courts are designed to hear cases from plaintiffs and defendants from a multitude of jurisdictions.”