[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H2731-H2732]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


            UNDER ``LOSER PAYS,'' WINNERS TREATED AS LOSERS

  (Mr. GUTIERREZ asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, the legal bill we are debating today can 
be summed up in two words.
  Loser pays.
  Loser pays. An appropriate phrase for this Congress.
  Because all across America, people who are winners are being treated 
like losers.
  Hard-working American families who are busy meeting their mortgage 
and making their car payment and saving for school supplies.
  Middle income Americans who are too busy trying to stretch their 
dollars to attend the thousand dollar a plate dinners for Republican 
insiders.
  Loser pays.
  Well, to my Republican colleagues, I guess the people who hold the 
champagne glasses and wear the designer dresses at their fundraisers 
are the winners, and the people who serve the drinks and clean up 
afterward are the losers.
  But today we have a chance to preserve the right of Americans to be 
winners in court by rejecting the lobbyist-sellout the majority calls 
``legal reform.''
  [[Page H2732]] When we do, the losers who pay will not be American 
families, they will be the lobbyists left alone when the lights go out 
at their party.

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