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to hurt some people. And probably the majority of those products, the overwhelming majority, are not going to be manufactured here in the State of Nebraska. And more importantly, a lot of the products, the few products that we do manufacture here in the state, they are sold outside the State of Nebraska, so they don't have an impact... they have to meet those standards of all the other 50 states as well. So they are being...they are under those product liability laws in those other states. I want to thank Senator Kristensen for bringing the amendment. I don't know if I am going to support it because I don't think it takes us that last final step. He takes the obvious ones that I think that's good. I think it is a step in the right way and maybe this debate will help to formulate his decision so they will take that step and acknowledge that... PRESIDENT ROBAK: Time. SENATOR ABBOUD: ...there will be other manufacturers that we need to protect our citizens from. Thank you.

PRESIDENT ROBAK: Thank you, Senator Abboud. Senator Lindsay announces the following guests are visiting the Legislature. Edna Turvold, Orville Walswick, and Della Newlin, all from Northwood, Iowa are here under the south balcony visiting the senator. Will you all please stand and be recognized. Thank you. Senator Crosby, your light is next. SENATOR CROSBY: Thank you. Madam President and members. Senator Will struck a note with me when he said, and Senator Abboud mentions the breast implants as being in the news and that it is a political issue. Well, yes, I am sure it is in the news a lot, and you passed around the clipping about Dow settling finally with some of the women who were hurt by the breast implants. But as I said a year ago, I am speaking out for those women who were sold a bill of goods for whatever reason, to look like Marilyn Monroe, or Twiggy, I don't know who they wanted to look like, a lot of that was...that's the far right and the far left or some or other in that particular subject, but my point is a lot of it, and I don't have any numbers on this, but a lot of it is cosmetic surgery and there are a lot of sins committed in this country and others under that label of cosmetic surgery. And the implants have hurt so many women, young women. I can tell you and give you names that you can talk to of women who are still suffering. Some of it wasn't...were medical reasons. Some were done for medical

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