Duncan Faircloth: “We limit attorneys' fees to every other attorney under the Equal Access to Justice Act. We limit to $125 attorney fees…”

“We limit attorneys' fees to every other attorney under the Equal Access to Justice Act. We limit to $125 attorney fees against the Federal Government in civil rights cases. Now, maybe they are less important than the tobacco case, but they only get $125 an hour. The Criminal Justice Act has a cap in most criminal cases of $75 an hour, and the Internal Revenue Code limits to $110 an hour a cap for winning parties in tax cases. And here we are talking about $88,000 an hour in Texas, and this is a fixed, done deal. This is not a guess-- $88,000 an hour. A trial lawyer makes more in an hour and a half than a U.S. Senator makes in a year. Now, maybe he is worth more, according to the testimony we have heard, but in an hour and a half, a Texas trial lawyer makes almost exactly the same amount of money that we pay a U.S. Senator for a full year's work. And they are saying, 'No, you cannot cap these great people, they have saved society.' Well, I don't think they are saving mankind. They are saving their own kind, and that is exactly what they are working on.”