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Jay Rockefeller: I think rather than to try to go into that, it would be better to focus on what this law is trying to do and why it is a…

On the recordMarch 21, 1996
I think rather than to try to go into that, it would be better to focus on what this law is trying to do and why it is a good conference report. In a matter of a couple of hours, we are going to pass this conference report. It will pass. The House and the Senate, for the first time, I believe, in recent history will have passed product liability tort reform. So it is an interesting and, I think, a rather noteworthy point of history. We have had really a couple of decades of hearings, markups, and arguments. Of course, there is a lot of emotion. A lot of that emotion is justified. Some of it is not. But history, there is.…
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

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Discussing the significance of passing product liability tort reform during Senate debate.

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