[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 12, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H435]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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   NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE 
                             UNITED STATES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following message 
from the President of the United States; which was read and, together 
with the accompanying papers, without objection, referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, Committee on Agriculture, Committee on 
Armed Services, Committee on Financial Services, Committee on Energy 
and Commerce, Committee on Education and the Workforce, Committee on 
Government Reform, the Committee on International Relations, Committee 
on Transportation and Infrastructure, Committee on Ways and Means, 
Committee on Veterans' Affairs, the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence, and the Select Committee on Homeland Security:

To the Congress of the United States:
  I am pleased to transmit the 2003 National Drug Control Strategy, 
consistent with the Office of National Drug Control Policy 
Reauthorization Act of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1705).
  A critical component of our Strategy is to teach young people how to 
avoid illegal drugs because of the damage drugs can do to their health 
and future. Our children must learn early that they have a lifelong 
responsibility to reject illegal drug use and to stay sober. Our young 
people who avoid drugs will grow up best able to participate in the 
promise of America.
  Yet far too many Americans already use illegal drugs, and most of 
those whose drug use has progressed--more than five million Americans--
do not even realize they need help. While those who suffer from 
addiction must help themselves, family, friends, and people with drug 
experience must do their part to help to heal and to make whole men and 
women who have been broken by addiction.
  We know the drug trade is a business. Drug traffickers are in that 
business to make money, and this Strategy outlines how we intend to 
deny them revenue. In short, we intend to make the drug trade 
unprofitable wherever we can.
  Our Strategy is performance-based, and its success will be measured 
by its results. Those results are our moral obligation to our children. 
I ask for your continued support in this critical endeavor.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House.

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