Political Quotes

“This legislation creates the kind of choice that he is talking about, because right now if a plaintiff or a defendant wants to have these cases heard in Federal court, they cannot be heard in Federal court simply because of a Federal rule, even though these are the most complex cases in the country. As to the case load, more than 12 percent of our Federal judges are awaiting appointment in the other body right now. Help us get our colleagues in the Senate to appoint President Bush's nominees, and we will easily have the ability to handle these cases in the jurisdiction that was actually created in our Constitution in article 3 for the very purpose of handling diversity cases, disputes among folks from many different States. It is wrong to allow the current system to persist where the plaintiffs' attorney can choose from more than 4,000 jurisdictions in the country, and whatever judge they know is the most favored judge gets the case; and then nobody has the option to have it heard in a fair and neutral court. That is what this legislation is all about.”