John Mica: “I would just like to, as we close up, remind folks that what this experiment in Switzerland, a beautiful country, you…”

“I would just like to, as we close up, remind folks that what this experiment in Switzerland, a beautiful country, you think of the Swiss Alps and mountain chalets and peaceful living. Let me read from this. In one park, the number of addicts grew to 15,000 daily that came for free needles. Switzerland, again, a placid European tranquil State, Switzerland now has the highest heroin addiction rate in Europe and the second highest HIV infection. That is with the free needles, with the free heroin. So they have tried it. It is a disaster for their people. We are joining their people who are now calling for a referendum to repeal this. Again, a good example of a program that went bad. So I join my colleagues in whatever pressure we need to put on the Swiss, United States interests, we will do that. We are not going to let what happened there happen here, and this is the evidence as to why we should not let that take place.”