Doc Hastings actually said...

There is an apparent lack of transparency and accountability to taxpayers when ESA settlements are being negotiated behind closed doors.

Litigation that blocks economic activity and public needs, such as building schools, not only impedes recovery, but it diminishes trust of t...

It is clearly appropriate to ask, in these tight fiscal times, whether taxpayers should subsidize groups that sue taxpayers in return.

These lawsuits over the past four years have numbered more than 500 and have cost taxpayers millions of dollars.