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By Tea Party Nation, posted by Andrew Cochran
On November 11, Sen. Mike Lee gave a speech to the Federalist Society National Conv… in which he explained that he wouldn’t vote for a Senate Republican jobs bill because it included a section imposing federal limits on awards in medical malpractice lawsuits (the Senate version of H.R. 5, passed by the House last week).
Sen. Lee discussed the Obamacare case on Fox Business Network yesterday, and he used the opportunity to again make the link between Obamacare and federal tort reform, as many conservatives and libertarians have done in criticizing H.R. 5. The anchor didn’t ask for his views on federal tort reform; the Senator volunteered the comparison. Here is the pertinent excerpt, from a transcript provided by Congressional Quarterly: read on
