Bobby Scott: “Mr. Speaker, unlike many of the others, this bill is narrowly drawn, and it is my understanding, and my colleague from…”

“Mr. Speaker, unlike many of the others, this bill is narrowly drawn, and it is my understanding, and my colleague from Virginia, I think, can correct me if I am wrong, but the usual problem we have in this case is you have an injured party without any recourse at all. This bill requires insurance on the part of the pilot. And so if there is negligence, the injured party does have recourse. He has recourse against the insurance policy, but he does not have recourse, in the bill, to the organization, the volunteer organization that just matched the pilot and the injured party together, so that the party, injured through ordinary negligence, would have recourse against the insurance policy covering the airplane and the pilot.”