Duncan Faircloth: “We have detailed every dime of the expenditure, and now we have opposition to detailing the attorney fees.”

I beg to correct you. It comes from the taxpayers of this country. The tax is on cigarettes and cigarettes are smoked by generally people with incomes of less than $40,000 to $50,000 a year. They are going to pay 70 percent of this tax. We…

It is difficult to see $185,000 an hour paid to plaintiffs' attorneys that come out of the working people of this country, too. And that bothers me considerably.

I wish to thank you for agreeing to include an amendment to the FY 1999 DoD Appropriations bill that directs the Department of Defense (DoD) to immediately obligate all of the funds which Congress has mandated be used for a fair, and…

There is great conversation that we are going into these attorney settlements with tobacco companies; that that is wrong; that we shouldn't do that; we are interfering in a private contract. Yet, we are telling the tobacco companies…