Pete Sessions: “It is a question of right and wrong. It is a question of just how rich persons can get with the money that should be…”

“It is a question of right and wrong. It is a question of just how rich persons can get with the money that should be available to benefit children and the health care of Americans. So I think we have an issue of great importance. I think the Senator from North Carolina is also correct when he says that we came here a few days ago and we talked about a $250 per hour containment of attorney fees and they said that was not enough. So we have attempted, again, to come up with a bill that will pass muster in this body, that will have support from both sides of the aisle, Democrats and Republicans, with the kind of fees that nobody can object to, that are rational and just and fair and quite generous, and will, in fact, make multimillionaires out of many, many lawyers. I do not believe and I resist the suggestion that this capping of these fees in this litigation is somehow an attack on attorneys and an attack on the contingent fee contracting in general. It has nothing to do with that. It involves only tobacco litigation--tobacco litigation and legislation that was brought to the U.S. Senate.”