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Robert Dornan: I feel that there is a war going on in narcotics and it is all on the side of the cocaine cowboys, and we have never…

On the recordApril 4, 1995
I feel that there is a war going on in narcotics and it is all on the side of the cocaine cowboys, and we have never mobilized our country on the side of the good guys to fight a drug war. But asking kids about 'Are they drug users,' so totally different and so far removed from the intimacy of asking about parental sex habits, those of their older brother or younger sisters' sex habits or their parents' political affiliation. I would resent a political affiliation question tied to a survey on drugs.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of drug use surveys during a committee meeting.

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