[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 135 (Thursday, September 26, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11232]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT SAYS ``I KNOW NOTHING''

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, Colombian President Ernesto Samper has 
been commended worldwide for presenting a new antinarcotics strategy to 
the United Nations. Politicians all over the world are singing his 
praises. I am one politician that does not.
  Last week, 9 pounds of heroin were found on President Samper's 
private plane. He says, ``I know nothing.'' Reports say the drug lords 
financed his presidential campaign to the tune of $6 million. President 
Samper says, ``I know nothing.''
  The truth is, President Samper is more forgetful than Sergeant 
Shultz, and it does not take Chief Inspector Clouseau to figure this 
out.
  When we can find heroin and cocaine as easy as Tylenol on the streets 
of America, the President of Colombia must be drafting the 
antinarcotics strategy for the world, and we are paying the piper. If 
he is Serpico, I am the Jolly Green Giant.
  I yield back the balance of all addiction in this country.

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