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  For Immediate ReleaseJuly 30, 2005 President's Radio Address      Audio      THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This year Congress and I have addressed many key priorities of the American people and we're making great progress. At the start of the year, I urged Congress to ease the burden of junk lawsuits on American workers, businesses and families, so Congress passed, and I signed, bipartisan class-action reform. We called for restoring integrity to the bankruptcy process, so Congress passed, and I signed common-sense reform of our nation's bankruptcy laws. I requested vital funds for our men and women in uniform, so Congress...

President Bush and Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski (link to press conference) met for the fourth time in the Oval Office "to discuss international policy," Iraq, training Iraqis, Bush's upcoming trip to Europe, Ukraine, making it easier for Polish citizens to travel to America, etc. Bush participated in a class-action lawsuit reform conversation, saying, "...A capitalist society depends on the capacity for people willing to take risk and to say there's a better future, and I want to take a risk toward that future. And I'm deeply concerned that too many lawsuits make it too difficult for people to do that."...

<p>WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday pushed through legislation that would curb a proliferation of frivolous class action lawsuits.</p> <p>The bill, passed 233-190, would shift many of those cases from state to federal courts.</p> <p>Opposing it were most Democrats as well as trial lawyers and consumer groups that believe the bill could make it harder to pursue corporate wrongdoing. The legislation faces an uncertain future in the Democratic-controlled Senate.</p>