[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 27856]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            BLACKHAWK HELICOPTERS FINALLY ARRIVE IN COLOMBIA

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Madam Speaker, on Sunday, October 31, 1999, the first 
three of six of the long awaited Blackhawk helicopters crossed into 
Colombian airspace, returning from extensive training in the U.S. The 
choppers were later received by the Director General, the legendary 
drug fighter Jose Serrano and his anti-drug unit at their air base near 
Bogota, where they train drug fighting pilots from all across Latin 
America.
  After years of waiting for the Clinton administration to get off the 
dime and help our beleaguered neighbor just 3 hours from Miami, which 
produces 80 percent of the world's cocaine and 75 percent of the heroin 
sold in the United States, the GOP-led anti-drug package from last year 
finally arrived.

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