Bush Pushes Retroactive Enron Escape Legislation

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"Retroactive legislation moving rapidly through Congress would make it easier for corporate wrongdoers to escape responsibility for defrauding investors, harming the environment and otherwise maximizing profits at the expense of the health and financial well-being of ordinary citizens," says Nan Aron, president of Alliance For
Justice, a nonprofit corporation based in Washington, DC. "In the wake of the worst corporate scandals in fifty years, rather than acting to deter wrongdoing, Congress is poised to encourage more white collar misconduct with passage of a so-called class action reform bill which actually retroactively helps several of our most notorious corporate miscreants escape accountability."

President Bush Wants Senate to Debate the Retroactive House Bill which Lets Ken Lay Off Hook and Usurps Federal Judicial Discretion

Legalized corporate theft and fraud?

They all need to be tar-ed and feathered!!!

He was one of the original authors of the CPA get out of jail free card legislation that got this whole corporate crime spree under way (same one Clinton vetoed and they overrode his veto).

Congressional Whores.

over this???? But not before pounding this story....unless, of course, he's been warned off by TPTB.

Is there no one who can stop this steam roller administration? Every day they come up with more outrageous propositions.

We guys in the white hats only need to get something in writing, maybe something on video, that will lasso this administration to a scandalous bunch that has ruined thousands of lives.

Does anyone know either the title or the House number of this bill?

OH THESE F--ing ORWWLLIAN NAMES. A calculated deceptive TRAVESTY of the language.

"The Class Action Fairness Act" (HR 1115), passed the House by a vote of 253
to 170 on July 12 and Junior is pushing its Senate counterpart S. 274.

S274 should be filibustered, pronto with a clear explanation that it is being done to protect the
the employees of these companies who are wiped out by this corporate thievery.