Tort Reform

This seems to have passed too easily. From The Washington Times :

House approves class-action act (Charles Hurt) The House overwhelmingly passed the Class Action Fairness Act yesterday, setting the stage for President Bush to sign into law as early as today the most sweeping federal tort reform measure in more than a decade.

What am I missing here? Why wasn't there the typical gnarling and the gnashing of teeth that we have all come to expect?