Special interest groups
Cry Wolf Quotes
This is going to be a lawyer’s paradise.
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Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), New York Times.
The Sarbanes bill will hand American corporations back to the trial lawyers for summary execution.
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Thomas Donohue, President of the Chamber of Commerce
Prior to the passage of this legislation [the OSH Act], certain special-interest groups (i.e. unions) testifying in support of punitive legislation attempted to describe American business management as irresponsible and unsympathetic to safety on the job….We continue to maintain that standard setting should be carried out by an independent board of experts who are not subject to the pressures of special-interest groups.
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Richard B. Berman, Chamber of Commerce, Testimony, the Select Subcommittee on Labor of the House Committee on Education and Labor.
We don’t want a lot of innocent small-business people who are trying to do the right thing to be hauled into court.
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David Rahr, chief House lobbyist for the National Federation of Independent Business. The New York Times.
