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Orrin Hatch: “It really is. But we also had testimony from Larry Tribe, on the left, who also basically said this would be very…”

On the recordMay 20, 1998
It really is. But we also had testimony from Larry Tribe, on the left, who also basically said this would be very constitutionally suspect. Now, to make a long story short, the very people who are arguing--I will ask the Senator this. Aren't the very people who are arguing for this $1.50 increase the people who have basically blown the tobacco companies out of the equation so that you cannot get the voluntary consent decrees to make these matters constitutional so that this will work, not just from a price increase standpoint but from an advertising restrictions standpoint, and from a look-back provision standpoint?
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Orrin Hatch
Republican · Utah
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Discussing constitutional concerns regarding a proposed tobacco price increase.

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