Kendrick Meek: “I have been elected to do something about this problem. I have tried my very best. It has pretty much gone on ears who…”

“I have been elected to do something about this problem. I have tried my very best. It has pretty much gone on ears who do not realize what is happening in the inner cities of this community, the community of this world of ours. I applaud the efforts that have been made by the Clinton administration, the drug czar. I applaud what Mexico has done. But I say to the Members, it is not enough. It is just not enough. The cooperation, the safeguards and all, have not been enough. Mexico has not fully cooperated. They have cooperated, but not fully. Therefore, I beg this Congress to vote ``yes'' on decertifying Mexico so the message will be taken that until they straighten up and fly right, we are going to stop the flow of drugs coming into our communities. My constituents say to me, Carrie Meek, why can't you do something to stop the drugs coming into inner cities, into the housing projects, killing our senior citizens, killing our children? Why? Why can't you do something? We know, they say to me, that this can be stopped. Whatever the Government wants to stop, they have the resources to stop. So as much as I would like to help Mexico and all other countries, now we have to save our children, Mr. Speaker. It is just that desperate. We have got to take desperate action.”