On the recordJune 15, 1998
Twice during the course of this debate we have debated the subject of limitations on attorneys' fees. On both occasions I have voted to table those amendments, not because I felt that limitations on attorneys' fees in connection with tobacco litigation and legislation were not appropriate, but because I felt that the amendments themselves were unfair. This amendment is a third attempt to provide some limitations in a manner that I, at least, believe to be considerably more sensitive and more fair to the attorneys who have been involved in that litigation. I hope under those circumstances it will be given reasonably careful consideration by my colleagues. We are dealing with litigation that is literally unprecedented, I think, in the history of the United States, with the potential of immense recoveries on the part of various States interfered with and amended by the legislation that we are considering here on the floor.
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