at and federal money is going to be spent, let s look at places where it can be saved and liability is clearly one of them. i think any federal reform is like federal what i call, torque reform. light. if that is true, we have to be very careful that it does not undercut things that happen in the states already. i ve seen some of the proposals and they provide something rather meager and then all the work is done in texas. it was done in texas. does not cut what the states have already done. there are mythical and real reforms. limits on noneconomic damages, which you would know as pain and suffering, works. congress so far is very shy away from that. the trial lawyers want no limits on damages of any kind because they feel that if they get 1/3 of the result, any cut, cuts 1/3 of that recovery. that s simple math. they re going to fight it to the death. unlikely to occur on a federal level. the president has talked about, when he s ever gotten, about some type of best pract