[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 106 (Thursday, July 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H7783]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             CRACK USERS ALLOWED TO WORK AT THE WHITE HOUSE

  (Mr. FUNDERBURK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FUNDERBURK. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, in testimony before the House 
Government Reform and Oversight Committee, two Secret Service agents, 
Arnold Cole and Jeffrey Undercoffer, testified that administration 
officials were allowed to work at the White House even though they were 
known to have been users of crack cocaine and other drugs.
  Agent Cole testified that several White House employees were 
initially denied access to the White House because of their recent drug 
use, but were allowed to stay because they were placed in a special 
testing program.
  It was also revealed late yesterday that Bill Clinton had personal 
knowledge of these events.
  Certainly the White House cannot spin this as another bureaucratic 
snafu. How can the American people take Bill Clinton's war on drugs 
seriously when he thinks it is perfectly acceptable to hire employees 
who have smoked crack.

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