[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 11 (Thursday, February 12, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H451]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               ON MEXICO

  (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, a CIA report says Mexico's powerful 
Interior Minister is dirty. He is tied to drug cartels and he turned a 
blind eye to drug trafficking. A blind eye to 7 tons of narcotics 
crossing the border every single day, 14,000 pounds?
  After all this, the White House is officially certifying Mexico as a 
cooperating partner in our war on drugs. Unbelievable. Some war on 
drugs. The Interior Minister is dirty.
  Their last drug czar was on the cartel's payroll, and 14,000 pounds a 
day are poisoning America. Beam me up. Evidently there is not as much 
testosterone at the White House as there is rumored to be. I say, let 
us secure our borders with the military who are falling out of chairs 
without armrests overseas.
  Let us straighten out our country, Congress. And let us declare war 
on narcotics.

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