[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 30 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1779]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 PRESIDENT CLINTON AND THE WAR ON DRUGS

  (Mrs. CUBIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mrs. CUBIN. Mr. Speaker, while President Clinton claims that he is 
doing everything he can do to fight the war on drugs, I would like to 
respectfully give some examples refuting that claim.
  If President Clinton was doing all he could, he would not have issued 
the executive order reducing military interdiction efforts including 
the elimination of 1,000 antidrug positions.
  If President Clinton was doing all he could, he would not have cut 
interdiction funds for the Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement 
Administration. If he was doing all he could, he would not have 
shortened minimum mandatory sentences for drug traffickers.
  If President Clinton was doing all he could, he would not have 
disbanded Operation Snow Cap which helps foreign countries with DEA 
agents in cocaine-producing countries. If he was doing all he could, he 
would not have dropped the drug issue from the top to the bottom of the 
229 priorities of the National Security Council.
  Obviously, the President is not doing all that he can do, even though 
it was his promise when he ran for President.

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