Honorable Bill Frist
United States Senator, Tennessee, Republican
Senator Frist was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994. He was a practicing surgeon from 1978 to 1994 and Director of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Heart-Lung Transplant Program from 1986 to 1993. He serves as Senate Majority Leader. The following is from a February 27, 2004, Congressional Record statement on asbestos litigation.I rise this afternoon to discuss the progress that has been made to date in my efforts to resolve a critically important issue — that is, the issue of asbestos litigation.First and foremost, we have made good progress toward enacting [Judiciary Committee] Chairman [Orrin] Hatch’s [UT-R]…
