Honorable John Linder
United States Representative, Georgia, Republican
Representative Linder, of the Eleventh District of Georgia, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. He served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1974 to 1980 and from 1982 to 1990. He is Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee and a member of the Rules Committee. The following statement is from the House floor debate of October 9, 1998, on the conference report on H.R. 3150, the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1998.The statistics of U.S. bankruptcy filings are frightening. Bankruptcies have increased more than 400 percent since 1980, and we expect over 1.4 million…
