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

I was disappointed that the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee did not include funding for the National Advanced Telecommunications and Applications Center in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. I ask the chairman whether this…

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…

the McCain bill is dead, and I say good riddance. It was nothing more than a massive tax increase on working Americans to fund an expansion of the Federal government. However, I suspect that we will revisit the tobacco issue, and I want to…

how we vote is not always clear to Americans. For the average citizen it is not easy to keep straight whether a ``yea'' is for or against something--whether it is a vote to pass a bill or table it. It also can be difficult to sort out…