[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4542]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   CONCLUSION OF DISCUSSION ON DRUGS

  (Mr. SOUDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SOUDER. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Mica) for a conclusion.
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Indiana for his 
cooperation, for coming out tonight and telling the American people 
about the situation we face with the corruption in Mexico, about the 
incredible volume of drugs that are coming across our border through 
Mexico, and about the apparent coverup and lack of investigation by 
this administration of corruption at the highest levels of Mexican 
government.
  Mr. Speaker, I simply wished to say that we will hold hearings, we 
will investigate, and we will pursue this matter to the fullest extent. 
We will conduct hearings on this. Our subcommittee and other committees 
of Congress will act, and we will get the facts and information no 
matter where they lead us.
  Mr. SOUDER. Mr. Speaker, I look forward to working with the gentleman 
to find the truth. We do not know where the truth lies, but when we 
make foreign policy decisions on Mexico and China, we do not want to 
hear about coverups, we want to hear we are actually pursuing every 
lead to make sure we are doing things in the best national interests of 
the United States and not just trying to up our trade dollars making 
decisions otherwise.
  I hope all this is false. I hope the top leaders of the Mexican 
government are completely clean. We need to work with them to eliminate 
our drug problem, but we have to know what the truth is.

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