[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 44 (Tuesday, April 21, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2064]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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       FREE IV NEEDLES TO ILLEGAL DRUG USERS IS NOT COMMON SENSE

  (Mr. WICKER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WICKER. Mr. Speaker, every so often we notice that the President 
cannot manage to keep his liberal demons away. In the early days, it 
was gays in the military and socialized medicine. Now the President has 
decided it is a good idea to provide free IV needles to illegal drug 
users, free IV needles to illegal drug users.
  I am just wondering what polling the President has been doing lately, 
because the moms and dads I talk to are very worried about illegal 
drugs. Most Americans do not have a Ph.D. in psychology, but they do 
have a lot of common sense. Many of them know what happens to an addict 
surrounded by enablers.
  Now we have the mother of all enablers, the Federal Government, 
encouraging the use of needles to drug abusers so that they might 
continue abusing drugs ``safely.'' Maybe that is what passes for common 
sense in this administration.

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