Well, if you do not let the Justice Department use its own money and if you do not let the agencies who are going to receive the money from that suit, you are not going to have a successful suit. The fact is that this suit will bring in many times more dollars to the veterans' health care fund than it would ever cost to pursue that suit; and, in my judgment, if you vote against allowing that to happen, you are really voting to make the veterans' health care fund less sound than it is and to make Medicare less sound than it is.
David Obey: “Well, if you do not let the Justice Department use its own money and if you do not let the agencies who are going to…”
On the recordJune 15, 2000
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Discussing the implications of a tobacco lawsuit on veterans' health care funding.
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