[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 30 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1778]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      AWOL CLINTON ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. RIGGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. RIGGS. Mr. Speaker, just allow me to point out that the liberal 
House Democrats just do not get it. As we have spent more and more 
money on public education, test scores have dropped in America, but 
they do not see the correlation.
  Mr. Speaker, the Clinton administration is AWOL in the war on drugs. 
Recent surveys have shown that drug use among teenagers has 
skyrocketed. In fact, the age of first use of drugs has gone down to 
age 13 and in some cases even younger than that. That really hits home 
with me, because I have a 14-year-old son.
  Mr. Speaker, there is a reason for this though. The Clinton 
administration has slashed enforcement and interdiction programs and 
they have appointed liberal judges. The President has appointed liberal 
judges who care more about criminals than basic justice.
  Case in point: One judge in New York, a Clinton appointee by the name 
of Baer, recently released an admitted drug dealer who was caught red-
handed with 75 pounds of cocaine and 4 pounds of heroin.
  Mr. Speaker, the President claims he never inhaled. But our children 
are inhaling and it is destroying their lives. The answer to our youth 
drug problem is not fancy press conferences. It is a President willing 
to institute real drug enforcement, real drug interdiction and real 
punishment of drug dealers.

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