Duncan Faircloth: “I don't know of a lot more that can be said on the subject. It has been very adequately and eloquently addressed by the…”

“I don't know of a lot more that can be said on the subject. It has been very adequately and eloquently addressed by the two Senators from Kentucky. But we talk about equity and we talk about fairness, but the truth of it is that is not even in the vernacular of what we are saying here tonight. What we are doing is very simply this--I said it yesterday, I think, or the day before--they said it was a historic session. Yes, it is a historic session. We are destroying an industry that has served this country for 300-plus years, and we are simply wiping it out. Now, when you go to the 77,000 workers in North Carolina and say to them, your job is gone, your industry is gone, but the good news is that international air travel is cheaper for you--most of them haven't been out of the county. So that is what we are saying here. I don't doubt that the real interest here is to reduce and enable people to deduct their health insurance. I didn't notice that it was proposed to be paid for by any 10-cents-a-bushel tax on corn. And they go back to Illinois and Missouri and explain to the corn farmers there that we really have done you a great favor. No, it is on tobacco, which has been the whipping boy. Anybody in the Senate or in the Congress in the last year or two that had an ax that needed to be ground, they have come to the tobacco industry to grind it for them. That is very simply what happened.…”