[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 45 (Wednesday, April 22, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2126]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




FREE NEEDLES TO DRUG ADDICTS, THE LATEST PROGRAM OF GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS

  (Mr. THUNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THUNE. Mr. Speaker, there the liberals go again. I do not get it. 
I do not get why the President is opposing his own drug czar by 
announcing that the Federal Government now wants to start another 
program of government handouts.
  Enthusiasm for government handouts is nothing new for this 
administration, only this time the government wants to start handing 
out free needles to drug addicts. Instead of trying to get drug addicts 
off the street and into a program that will stop their self-destructive 
behavior, the government will now give a green light to their drug 
habit and send them on their way with clean needles so that they can, 
get this, abuse drugs safely.
  I have had about enough of the liberal insanity, and I think that 
most Americans are tired of left-wing experts peddling a policy based 
on bogus science that runs counter to common sense.
  The liberals love to come up with new handouts: money, condoms, free 
this and free that. Now, just when we think it cannot get any worse, 
free needles for safe shooting. Safe shooting, America.

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