[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 145 (Tuesday, October 13, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10672]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 VIAGRA

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, pardon me, but today I rise because I am 
outraged by a New York Times report that the Department of Defense has 
requested between $50 and $100 million for Viagra, the new sex drug 
designed for impotent men. Instead of offsetting this request from its 
$26 billion budget, Secretary Cohen has requested an increase in the 
1999 military readiness bill. When the military brass were on Capitol 
Hill saying that our reasonable belt tightening had resulted in an 
impotent military, I guess I did not fully understand the scope of the 
problem.
  With $50 million worth of Viagra, the entire military industrial 
complex will be locked, cocked and ready to rock. Pretty scary.
  Mr. Speaker, they just do not get it, with Monica-gate, the Aberdeen 
Proving Ground sex scandal and widespread sexual assaults throughout 
the military, our Commander-in-Chief and his Secretary of Defense 
concocted this idea that our military needs this extra expenditure. Let 
us have no more talk of this expanding malfunctioning missile salvation 
operation.

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