[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 130 (Thursday, September 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10604]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     DRUG USE UP UNDER BILL CLINTON

  (Mr. DOOLITTLE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. Speaker, in 1992, before Bill Clinton took over as 
President, the overall chances that an adolescent used drugs was 1 in 
20. In 1995, after 3 years of Bill Clinton, the chances an adolescent 
was using drugs had skyrocketed to 1 in 9.
  Mr. Speaker, our children are being lied to. They are being sold on 
messages from popular culture, the music industry, and Hollywood that 
drug use is acceptable; that it is glamorous; and that it is cool. 
Nothing could be further from the truth. Drugs destroy lives, they 
destroy families, indeed they destroy freedom.
  Under Bill Clinton, the war on drugs has become a small skirmish; a 
rear guard action. Enforcement is down, interdiction is down, and 
prison time for drug dealers is down. And this is all compounded by 
Bill Clinton's own flippant remarks on MTV about his own drug use.
  Mr. Speaker, we cannot surrender; we cannot give up; we must fight 
for our children and fight for their future.

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