[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 73 (Tuesday, June 9, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4249]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    HARTMAN WIFE HAD DRUGS IN SYSTEM

  (Mr. HASTERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HASTERT. Mr. Speaker, not to detract from next week's Drug-Free 
Athletes and Role Models Week, but today I must speak directly to the 
role models of our Nation's youth, and that most certainly includes the 
Hollywood elite.
  The toxicology report is back on the death of actor Phil Hartman, and 
my colleagues guessed it. Hartman's assailant, his wife, was high on 
cocaine, other drugs and alcohol when she pulled the trigger ending his 
life.

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  How many more personal and public tragedies must this country endure 
at the hands of illegal drugs? Phil Hartman's passing, along with the 
deaths of Chris Farley and John Belushi, are not part of some so-called 
``Saturday Night Live'' curse. These talented people are fatal victims 
of drug abuse.
  As chairman of the Speaker's Task Force for a Drug-Free America, I 
urge the Hollywood elite to join this Congress in its commitment to win 
the war on drugs by the year 2002. As we all know, actions speak louder 
than any laws or any words.

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