[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 135 (Thursday, September 26, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11233]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                WHITE HOUSE BURIES CRITICAL DRUG REPORT

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, here it is, the Washington Times headline 
for today: ``White House Buries Critical Drug Report.''
  Mr. Speaker, let me quote the story. The Clinton administration, 
which has cut drug interdiction efforts by nearly $630 million since 
1992, is sitting on a Pentagon commission report suggesting that 
President Clinton's shift to a drug treatment strategy has failed. The 
report, sent to the administration officials in May but never made 
public, said interdiction was the most successful and cost-effective 
way of dealing with the Nation's drug problem.
  Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe that the White House actively 
suppressed knowledge of this report. It boggles the minds to know that 
when confronted with evidence of failure of their own policies, that 
the White House would look the other way. It is simply too much to 
accept that the President would do virtually nothing, knowing full well 
of the explosion of teen drug use. This is unbelievable.

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