[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 25, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4378]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    A FULL COURT PRESS AGAINST DRUGS

  (Mr. BLAGOJEVICH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BLAGOJEVICH. Mr. Speaker, let me begin by quoting a sports hero 
from my hometown of Chicago:

       I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost 
     almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been entrusted to 
     take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and 
     over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Mr. Speaker, the other day in the Committee on Rules, I, like Michael 
Jordan, took a shot and I missed. I filed an amendment that would have 
given additional money to our military for our fight to interdict drugs 
before they cross our borders and reach our neighborhoods.
  Mr. Speaker, we met the challenge of the cold war by providing the 
necessary resources to win that war. Now it is time we invested some of 
those same resources to fight and win the war on drugs, a war being 
waged in every neighborhood and every community in our country. 
Because, Mr. Speaker, in the final analysis, it is only with a full 
court press that we can ultimately turn failure into success.

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