Bob Goodlatte actually said...

"The bill we are examining today, the Fraudulent Joinder Prevention Act, will also help address a litigation abuse that regularly drags small businesses into court."

"America's small businesses are some of the leading victims of frivolous lawsuits and the extraordinary costs that our legal system imposes."

"And would one of you answer my question, which was, can you give us a summary of the impact that such an Order, meaning the California Dairy Marketing Order, will have on the rest of the country?"

"This is not like originally delivering telephone services or rural electrification where it was either there or it wasn't there."