Paul Coverdell: “there is an incongruity here between myself and the Senator from Vermont. I just heard the Senator from Vermont say…”

“there is an incongruity here between myself and the Senator from Vermont. I just heard the Senator from Vermont say, ``You don't throw money at the drug program,'' and then the Senator from Delaware. So, you are suggesting the President is throwing money away? This is the President's request, and to the Senator from Delaware, when it is fulfilled, it is still only up to half what it was in 1992. It is moving in the right direction. It is not a dollar more. Now the Senator from Vermont has also suggested that, by moving this money to this international narcotics fund, it is cutting international organizations and programs. That is simply not so. The money we took from international organizations and programs is from the surplus that was over the President's request. So all I have done is taken that additional money over and above the President's request and moved it over to fulfill the President's request, which seems eminently logical to me given the condition of the drug epidemic in the United States, given the fact that this is a Presidential request, and given the fact that we are simply removing money from a surplus that the President did not request. I have to say, given the condition of children in our country, I think the President is right on this one. I am perplexed that the other side of the aisle would be trying to thwart the President's own objectives here.”