[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 46 (Thursday, April 23, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2241]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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  CONGRESS NEEDS TO STAND FIRM AGAINST THE WHITE HOUSE ON FREE NEEDLE 
                                PROGRAM

  (Mr. BOB SCHAFFER of Colorado asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOB SCHAFFER of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, many people remember the 
President's Surgeon General claiming that the answer to youth violence 
was safer guns and safer bullets; that the answer to sexual promiscuity 
among America's youth is condoms in schools. Now we have the answer to 
the escalating drug problem in America coming out of the White House, 
free needles to heroin addicts. Imagine that, Mr. Speaker, government-
subsidized free needles to heroin addicts.
  I submit the following: Any President who supports and would promote 
the subsidization of free needles to heroin addicts is just as guilty 
as any drug pusher or any drug user who causes death and destruction 
among America's communities today.
  This level of social decay is unacceptable. This Congress needs to 
stand firm against the White House. The partnership for a Drug-Free 
America has met its match. The White House and the heroin industry 
formed the partnership for free drugs in America. Common sense needs to 
rule the day. We need to stand firm.
  In a minute another member of the President's party is going to step 
to the microphone, and I want to ask directly, is he going to stand 
with Americans against this free needle exchange program, or is he 
going to talk about something else today?

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