[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 32 (Thursday, March 13, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H953]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




BECAUSE WE ARE BEING FLOODED BY COCAINE FROM MEXICO WE MUST TAKE STRONG 
                                 STEPS

  (Mr. SOUDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SOUDER. Mr. Speaker, we have an important vote coming up today on 
decertification of Mexico, and this is not a battle over whether we are 
friends or not friends. Like it or not in Mexico and like it or not in 
America, we are going to have to work together like close friends have 
to work together, and part of working together is trying to address 
joint problems.
  There is a feeling sometimes that we are trying, as Big Brother, to 
force our will on Mexico without reducing our own demand. We are 
working aggressively to reduce our demand. In America we have drug dogs 
in our schools, we are building more prisons then we ever dreamed we 
needed to, we have upped our treatment and our prevention budgets by 50 
percent. But the reason we are doing this is an example front-page 
headline in Ft. Wayne last week: ``I-69 Crash Linked To Cocaine And 
Pot.''
  A youngster on cocaine and marijuana flipped his car, landed on a 
pickup driven by another young person, which then landed on a car 
driven by another person, which forced it into another vehicle and 
veered into the median, which then hit a pile up into a sixth vehicle.
  Because we are being flooded with cocaine coming in from Mexico we 
have to take strong steps.

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