Paul Coverdell: “I will take just a minute to read from this statement from William Bennett: Yesterday we learned from interviews with…”

“I will take just a minute to read from this statement from William Bennett: Yesterday we learned from interviews with Secret Service agents that background investigations on White House employees found that more than 40 had used drugs; a few dozen showed drug usage-- I have always wondered what that remark means; what is ``a few dozen''? It sounds an awful lot like 40. . . . a few dozen showed drug usage has been within the last 5 years; and that among those few dozen people were individuals who had used cocaine, crack cocaine and hallucinogens. It goes on: ``These revelations by Secret Service agents, combined with Mr. McCurry's comments,'' which we have all talked about earlier, ``are, I think, emblematic of the Clinton administration's cavalier and indifferent attitude toward illegal drug use. The Clinton administration does not seem to care about this issue. They seem unwilling to take a strong and unambiguous stand against drug use. And this Nation is now paying a very heavy price for the Clinton administration's indifference in terms of wrecked and lost lives.'' This is the point I want to underscore over and over. We are not talking about just reciting numbers of increase, et cetera. We are talking about some kid in your family, somebody that lives next door, somebody you work with, that you know and care about. Every one of these 2 million new families that are experiencing drug use in their family are just like somebody we know, or they may be somebody we know.”