Maxwell Frost: “Mr. Speaker, a President of the other party, Mr. Nixon, once observed, watch what I do, not what I say. The folks on the…”

“Mr. Speaker, a President of the other party, Mr. Nixon, once observed, watch what I do, not what I say. The folks on the other side are following that advice, of course. They are claiming to be bipartisan, claiming sweetness and light, and then they bring forward the Hastert amendment on which Democrats were not consulted. They brought it to the Committee on Rules, imposed on a straight party line vote, and they used the Hastert amendment to attack the President and his administration. Let me read from the Hastert amendment which they are presenting as this wonderful compromise. On page 4: United States Government strategy has been weak in responding to statutory deadlines, has been characterized by an absence of statutorily mandated measurable goals, lack of effective coordination and program accountability, and often untargeted and insufficient funding, from the smallest agencies involved in the drug war up to and including the White House Drug Policy Office. They are not talking about another country, they are talking about our President in our own country. They further say: United States Government policy has emphasized additional funding for unproven drug treatment techniques at the expense of accountable drug prevention programs that effectively teach a right-wrong distinction.”