Political Quotes

“the effect of this amendment, the numbers are large but the basic effect of what this amendment does is it reduces the Eisenhower Program which I will explain in a minute by $10 million, actually $10 million beyond the $90 million that is already going to be reduced, and it leaves $10 million in the safe and drug-free schools and communities to be used for the DARE program. That particular program is not a line item program and it is very important, I think, that we establish on the floor here today that the intent of this body is that $10 million which will be left in the safe and drug-free schools and communities program will be used for the DARE Program, a program which I think has generally been viewed as highly successful in virtually every State of the 44 States it is in, of the 50 percent of the school districts across the United States of America which is participated in by many, many tens of thousands of children and which may have had a positive an effect on dealing with the problems of young people using drugs as any other program which I know of in my personal hands-on experience in the drug area.”