Kent Conrad: “I find it the most curious thing that has happened all year--why you would provide a special reserve fund so that if…”

“I find it the most curious thing that has happened all year--why you would provide a special reserve fund so that if there is tobacco legislation that passes, you can have the revenue flow to the Federal Treasury; but then you say, when we go to spend the money, none of it can be used for smoking cessation, smoking prevention, counter-tobacco advertising, expanded health research, funding the FDA so that they can attend to their added responsibilities under any of the bills that have been offered, by either Republicans or Democrats. The curious thing is that every single bill that has been offered out here, whether it is the bill of Senator Hatch, who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, the bill of Senator McCain, who is chairman of the Commerce Committee, or Senator Jeffords' bill, all those bills would be out of order.”