Duncan Faircloth

If the Senator will read, at the top, it clearly says--in the English language it is pretty clear--that it includes all matters, defendant or otherwise.

The Faircloth cap is an attempt to insert a bit of sanity into a world of attorney-fee madness. The national tobacco settlement has turned into the 'national lawyer enrichment deal.' Let me tell you a little about the current 'national…

Now read the bottom, line 10. It clearly includes the attorneys for the tobacco companies.

I am offering this important amendment because we cannot allow this tobacco bill to turn into ``Wheel of Fortune'' for trial lawyers. That is why my amendment caps attorney fees at $250 per hour. Under the current bill, trial lawyers will…

If they submit a record, they will have to submit a record to the Congress. And of course it would be perjury to lie about it. They have to submit the record. Yes, I am saying they are going to be held responsible. And to the same fees…

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…

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.

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

We have been on this now for several hours, and we have come down to two things: Should we abrogate contracts or not? They say they are contracts with these attorneys, they have made these contracts. Well, maybe they have. But we are…

So, Mr. President, who are these ``superman'' lawyers who deserve to be paid more than 20,000 times the salary of a working American? Well, one of them is Hugh Rodham, the President's brother-in-law. He is on line to get $50 million as a…

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…

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…

I would like to ask everyone to take a moment to look at the most important stamp ever issued in our history, and that is the one we have the painting of here on the easel. I joined the U.S. Postal Service in unveiling this stamp in Chapel…

I have few superlatives that I can claim as a Member of the Senate, but one of them is that I have spent 52 years in active agriculture, farming, and in all phases of it. I would be hard pressed to find the crop or the livestock interest…

I rise to introduce the Safe Highways Act. This bill authorizes $20 million per year over the next five years for enforcement activities to prevent unsafe foreign trucks from rolling across our borders under NAFTA. This bill will fund…

today I am introducing the Improved Military Medical Plan Act, IMMPACT for short, to ensure that military retirees and their families will continue to be given proper medical care. This past May 1, the Defense Department implemented its…

I note that all 100 Senators have joined me as cosponsors of this resolution. This resolution is to honor a truly great American and a great North Carolinian, former Senator Terry Sanford, a man I knew since I was about 18, 19 years old…

What this amendment says is very simple, that it is the sense of the Senate that eliminating the marriage penalty tax should be one of the highest priorities for tax relief this year. The Congressional Budget Office has reported that in…

what this amendment is about is very simple. As I have said many times, if we can provide $18 billion for the IMF without any budget impact at all, I think we can certainly waive the Budget Act, if it comes to that, to provide $5 billion…

I am delighted to accept the amendment from Senator Gregg. It is a good amendment. The States have a burden complying with this law, and I have no problem with using $1 billion of the $5 billion we are proposing so the States can meet the…

I do not support the IMF compromise because I think it is incredibly weak. I did not support IMF funding out of the committee, and I think it is absolutely sinful to support $14 billion more to go to the IMF. It is everything but an…

Mr. President, I want to join the Senator from Texas in thanking the chairman of the Budget Committee, Senator Domenici, for including a repeal of the marriage penalty tax in the budget resolution which was unveiled today. Mr. President…

I believe we need campaign finance reform, but the McCain-Feingold amendment is not the right approach at this time. I will say that I am disappointed that many of the people advocating reform are defending people who couldn't live under…

today I am introducing S. 1555, the ``Internal Revenue Service Oversight, Restructuring and Tax Code Elimination Act of 1997.'' This legislation establishes an oversight board composed of private citizens to review the policies and…

several times during this session, the Securities Subcommittee of the Senate Banking Committee has held hearings on the issue of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) accounting standards for derivatives and other instruments…