Unfortunately, Sessions makes some good points for passing it..
Cornyn mentioned a few amendments...and I don't know if they are the kind of amendments that are likely to pass or not...so he may be HOPING but not counting on it...
Sessions also mentioned amendments but, like Cornyn didn't elaborate.
This is complicated, yet fascinating...and, under 99.99% of American's radar...scary, huh?
I just know that I trust Sessions and Cornyn and in a way, Coburn, more than anyone else...(don't know how Allen feels, or knows about this)...and if THEY differ...I am in trouble as far as figuring out how I feel..because it is so complicated.
I DO KNOW that I don't want the weasley lawyers to make out like bandits...and I don't like people that aren't entitled, getting compensation because of the weasely lawyers.
Yes he does make good points about how very much this issue needs to be addressed. However, after reading O'Beirne and listening to Cornyn (I dismiss Durbin's remarks about lobbyists writing the bill as both sides have had a hand in this), I think what I am seeing is another big, expensive government mess. And if we think this is bad, envision single payer health care. Oy!
Similar to the silicone litigation that threatened to take Dow Corning out of business. All the current proposal aims to do is arrive at a legislated settlement, to substitute for a litigated one.
In other words, it aims to cut off certain judicial remedies, and all the baggage that comes with them. I'm not clear on what drives the legislation, if it's the manufacturer defendants (who cares about them anyway? Bankrupt the whole lot of them and other companies would take over); or the courts for being overloaded. Sessions said something like 30 thousand cases were pending.
It's tobacco settlement like - except instead of being done by courts, it's being done by the Congress. I don't know if the House has taken this up yet.
Interesting though, that this is a higher priority than debate, negotiation and renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act.