Ron Lewis: “This is exactly why we cannot have a good, honest debate. This is why it is hard to put trust and faith in our…”

Mr. Lewis, when you all leave here today, for God's sake, do whatever you can to free credit to the people across this Nation, because they are suffering and they are hurting.

over the past year, with all the talk about a global tobacco settlement, tobacco farm families are very worried about their future. Mr. Speaker, I cannot predict at this point whether efforts to craft a settlement will be successful, but…

the Federal tobacco lawsuit is bad public policy and a waste of taxpayer dollars. The case is not about the law, but about the Federal Government extorting money from an industry that it does not like. Which industry will be the next…

it is time for America to weep and mourn. It is time for America to cry out for her children. ``A voice was heard,'' as Jeremiah said in the Old Testament, ``in Ra'mah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children…