Duncan Faircloth: “I do not think there has ever been a Federal program in which we gave away money like we have with SSI that was very…”

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…

We have detailed every dime of the expenditure, and now we have opposition to detailing the attorney fees.

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.

In the light of the recent terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, our Nation's growing problem with drug smuggling and even the proliferation for weapons of mass destruction, it would be a tragedy if we did not take full advantage of the best…