Then why did the Judiciary Committee turn around and make it nondischargeable?

I have been on this Committee since I was first elected to Congress in 1978.

Yes, my time is up, but I am a skeptic. You have got to convince me.

If we repeat that mistake the American taxpayers will rise up, saying the Federal Government lent them money, and they had no intention of paying it back because the bankruptcy court was across the street.

We must do everything we can to make sure that innocent taxpayers are not forced to pick up the tab for unpaid student loans.

This bill offers a way to make Chapter 11 bankruptcy more accessible to small businesses.

Several witnesses asserted that arbitration agreements prevent the disclosure of wrongdoing, but you testified that arbitration agreements cannot prevent injured parties from speaking publicly about their claims or discussing their claims…

Eliminating arbitration achieves one thing: it enriches trial attorneys. It does not help claimants.

Why pursue legislation that puts the interests of trial attorneys over American workers, consumers, and businesses?

Eliminating arbitration only benefits the trial attorneys.

We all believe--I am the father of two daughters, one of them is sitting in the room this morning--that women should be protected from discrimination based solely on their sex, and that is the law today.