Political Quotes

“I am reading section 1413. It says: . . .In any such arbitration, the arbitration panel shall consist of 3 persons, one of whom shall be chosen by the plaintiff, one of whom shall be chosen by the attorney, and one of whom shall be chosen jointly by those 2 arbitrators. That is not plaintiff and defendant. That is a fixed deal. In any event, to say that because it is possible that this sets a ceiling, that a $4,000 fee or a $2,000 fee might be too great a ceiling, we should, therefore, have no ceiling at all, we should, therefore, allow attorneys' fees that have already been approved in far larger amounts, is, I think, a difficult argument to make. The Senator from North Dakota makes it very well. But, in fact, the Congress of the United States has set attorneys' fees in all kinds of cases. They were discussed a few days ago by the Senator from Alabama and by others. There are many forms of litigation against the government itself in which we have set attorneys' fees that now, I think, are rather modest with the passage of time. This is not unprecedented by any stretch of the imagination. What is unprecedented is the generosity of the proposal that I have put before the Senate.”