[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 130 (Thursday, September 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H10606-H10607]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION RETREATS

  (Mr. MILLER of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, after a decade of progress under 
Ronald Reagan and George Bush, Bill Clinton is leading the full-scale 
retreat on the war on drugs.
  Upon arriving in the White House, Bill Clinton began by dismantling 
the war on drugs. He began by slashing the U.S. military's drug 
interdiction budget by 1,000 positions. In February 1993,

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he eliminated 83 percent of the staff at the Office of National Drug 
Policy. That is where the drug czar works.
  Bill Clinton cut Customs Service interdiction by 20 percent. And to 
top it off, in December 1993, the Clinton-appointed Surgeon General, 
Jocelyn Elders, publicly talked about drug legalization.
  Mr. Speaker, is it any surprise that under Bill Clinton's watch the 
number of 12- to 17-year-olds using marijuana has doubled? And 
marijuana use today starts at a younger age. The average age of first 
use is about 13\1/2\ years.
  The children of today are coming under the era of the President who 
said, I didn't inhale. And now it is our communities that are feeling 
the pain.

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