[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 8 (Thursday, February 3, 1994)]
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    URGING THE ADMINISTRATION TO MAINTAIN ILLEGAL STATUS OF DRUG USE

  (Mr. MAZZOLI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, drug use is one of the most growing and one 
of the most vexing and agonizing problems facing America today. To 
properly deal with this, we need a manifold response, everything from 
stern law enforcement, unflinching sentencing and throwing the key away 
on the drug kingpins, to drug education, drug counseling and drug 
treatment, in prisons and out of prisons.
  One aspect in this national response, Mr. Speaker, we do not need is 
any talk of legalization of drugs, as has been mentioned for study by 
the Surgeon General of the country. I was, therefore, pleased this week 
when Secretary Shalala of the Department of Health and Human Services, 
in announcing the disquieting growth in drug use among young people in 
America, said illegal drugs will remain illegal.
  I would be reassured even further, Mr. Speaker, if the President 
would say again, as he has said in the past, that illegal drugs will 
remain illegal--that they will not be legalized on his watch. That is 
the proper approach, and I hope to hear it again many times in the 
months ahead.

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