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University Daily Kansan / Friday, December 6, 1991
Quayle criticizes trend in litigation, Democrats
By Rochelle Olson Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The U.S. legal system is out of control, Vice President Dan Quayle told about 3,000 members of Farmland Industries Inc. yesterday.
we nave become the most litigious society in the world," Quayle said. "Sue first, verify later. It's a first resort rather than a last resort."
Fear of lawsuits prevents advances in medicine, he said.
Companies won't test the vaccine for fear of legal problems, Quayle said.
way cited an experimental vaccine that could reduce the risk to fetuses of contracting HIV from an infected mother.
"I say it's time Americans had more incentive to creat and build and no file lacerations."
But Quayle saved some criticism for Democrats in Congress.
He said that if Congress had passed the president's economic package, the economy would be strong and vibrant.
"I'm not here to blame others. I'm merely stating a fact." Quayle said.
He said that he and Bush would take their case for the jobs package to the U.S. people and ask them to pressure their senators and representatives.
The package includes capital gains tax cuts, extensions of the research and development tax credit and decrease penalties for early withdrawals of independent retirement accounts.
"Our chances for passing the jobs pack aie will be greatly enhanced," he said.
Quayle said it was now more imperative than ever that Congress get serious and pass the jobs package.
in past jobs.
"I predict that we'll have a much better economic system in October 1992," he said.
The economic improvement will be just in time for the presidential election, he said.
Quayle said that the president had not formally declared he would run for reelection.
"I'm fairly convinced he's going to run," he said.
Quayle was not concerned about Bush's re-election challenges posed by Republican candidates Pat Buchanan and David Duke.
"Duke is insignificant," Quayle said.
"The people of Louisiana saw through him."
Duke recently lost an election for governor of Louisiana. He is a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
"He is a racist, a neo-Nazi and a bad person," Quayle said.
Quayle said that Buchanan, a conservative political columnist, was not serious about his campaign and only sending a message.
Yesterday's appointment of Sam Skinner as Chief of Staff to Replacing John Sunnun will not significantly alter the White House, Quayle said.
"The president has a certain operating style," Quayle said. "Sam Skinner will accommodate that."
he said Skinner, former secretary of transportation, relished challenges and was goal-oriented.
Knstin Petty/KANSAN
Vice President Dan Quayle and his wife, Marilyn, greet excited shopper and weary children in Crown Center. The Quayles stopped by the busy shopping plaza yesterday for some chocolate chip cookies on their way to a press conference in downtown Kansas City.
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