Mark Warner: “If I might reply to my friend and colleague, there was no intention of the Senator from Virginia to repeat what is an…”

“If I might reply to my friend and colleague, there was no intention of the Senator from Virginia to repeat what is an historically important case on tobacco. I studied that case very carefully. There were, I think, three votes. My recollection is it was $4,000 per hour, at which time the Senate finally accepted. I would not participate in such a process. I just struck the one-third for the lower amounts of the recovery and basically scaled it to 25 and the other percentage as the rate of recovery increase. I would be happy to work with colleagues. It goes to the question of just how much will be eventually given to the recipients who need these funds.”