“I really congratulate Bobby for coming around and supporting this strong solution. It will help clean up real contamination and shut down the trial lawyer bonanza, which has been hurting job creation in our energy sector. And it happened for one reason – legislators did their job, faced a tough issue and voted the right way in the House, and were about to in the Senate.”

– Sen. David Vitter, on the deal reached last night which appears to have resolved the controversy about legacy lawsuits.