Don Nickles: “To respond to my colleague, we are talking about so much, not per case, but per attorney. We didn't limit the number of…”

“To respond to my colleague, we are talking about so much, not per case, but per attorney. We didn't limit the number of attorneys. We just didn't want to be in a situation where a U.S. attorney is hiring additional counsel and to have the defense counsel say, ``Hey, we can pay three or four times more. Come fight on our side of the case.'' Right now, in the case of the Oklahoma City bombing case, the defense attorneys made--I am not talking about expenses--they individually made probably three or four times as much as U.S. attorneys. I think that is inequitable. I am talking about what they receive in take-home pay, per attorney.”