[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 40 (Wednesday, April 1, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S2967]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petitions and memorials were laid before the Senate and 
were referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-375. A resolution adopted by the House of the General 
     Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; to the 
     Committee on Appropriations.

                        House Resolution No. 330

       Whereas, Since 1989 the Pennsylvania National Guard 
     Counterdrug Program has supported 2,965 counterdrug missions 
     at Federal, State and local law enforcement levels in this 
     Commonwealth; and
       Whereas, Pennsylvania National Guard counterdrug efforts 
     have supported drug law enforcement missions that have taken 
     10,221 pounds of cocaine, 402 pounds of heroin and 21,689 
     pounds of marijuana off Pennsylvania streets; and
       Whereas, Since 1994 Pennsylvania National Guard counterdrug 
     personnel have cleaned and sealed or razed over 2,270 units 
     of houses in seven different municipalities within this 
     Commonwealth; and
       Whereas, The Pennsylvania National Guard Counterdrug 
     Program has provided construction support in the 
     rehabilitation of three victims' centers in Philadelphia and 
     five pocket parks in Chester; and
       Whereas, Since 1993 the Pennsylvania National Guard 
     Counterdrug Program has assisted in drug seizures of over 
     $1,600,000,000 in Pennsylvania; and
       Whereas, The President of the United States and Congress 
     have proposed a reduction in the amount of the Federal 
     appropriation to the Pennsylvania National Guard Counterdrug 
     Program; and
       Whereas, The antidrug efforts being performed by the 
     Pennsylvania National Guard have been very valuable to the 
     citizens of this Commonwealth; therefore be it
       Resolved, That the House of Representatives of the 
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania memorialize the President of the 
     United States and Congress to maintain and increase funding 
     for the Pennsylvania National Guard Counterdrug Program.

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