substantial bipartisan support to this day because senator charles grassley is one of the chief champions of the statute. there is substantial democratic support as well. host: that is not to say there has been criticism out there of the false claims act. the chamber of commerce, one group that is very critical of the false claims act, in a actnt report says "the incentivize is fruitless lawsuits, generates litigation across the government lots of money to investigate and pursue. --r spots to those concerns your response to those concerns? guest: one thing you have to look at is that the chamber as members and many of those members are the industries that have tried to dismantle the false claims act. from 1987 -- the statue was passed in 1986, strengthened in 1986, and from 1987 they have thed to dismantle and gut statue. that is an important thing to bear in mind. another consideration, this is a public-private partnership, in the best sense of the word, the false claims act, because it allows -- the government is lacking in a 2 things in these cases. it is lacking information that our c

charl e. in the senate. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: i would, too, like to thank senator grassley for arranging so that we could proceed with the current law. and i have found senator grassley to be someone who will listen, who will deliberate and who will try to do what he thinks is in the best interest of the people. in this particular case, the security interest of the people. i would ask senator grassley to consider as we meet about this over the course of the next several weeks or months, since we both fly in to washington, d.c. and if you are on flights like this senator is, there may be a good chance that there is an air marshal on that flight because the flight is so sensitive coming in to a city where only seconds from an airplane aborting a landing, only within seconds that airplane is near some of the centers of the united states government, such as the capitol, such such as the white house, such as the supreme court. and if a person were able to sneak a plastic gun through, then it seems to me that that poses a much greater threat to the security interest of this count