[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 46 (Wednesday, April 12, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H2127]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    WAR AGAINST METHAMPHETAMINE ACT

  (Mr. LATHAM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the War Against 
Methamphetamine Act introduced today by our colleague from California 
(Mr. Calvert).
  In the upper Midwest in Iowa, there has simply been an explosion of 
methamphetamines that is affecting our young people, our families, our 
communities, and being the most destructive element that we have seen 
in many, many years.
  There are four legs to fighting this problem. One is for 
interdiction, another enforcement, education, and then treatment. What 
this bill does is gives us the tools to help with enforcement by 
increasing penalties for those selling, by making sure that we are able 
to track people who are making the drugs, and by increasing penalties 
to those who are causing tremendous environmental damage with the labs 
that are being put in place to make this horrible drug.
  This is a great measure to move us forward in this great battle, and 
I would hope the entire House will join in supporting this measure.

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