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Duncan Faircloth: “There is great conversation that we are going into these attorney settlements with tobacco companies; that that is…”

On the recordMay 19, 1998
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, without any question, cancel your contracts in advertising, whether it is television, billboards, newspapers, racetracks. All those you cancel. You go back and retroactively do it. And because we are trying to set caps on attorneys' fees, they say we are interfering in the private sector. What is the other part of the bill?
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Duncan Faircloth
Republican · North Carolina
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Discussing the implications of attorney settlements with tobacco companies.

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