Political Quotes

“As I recall, the gentleman from Nebraska's (Mr. Osborne) charts are incremental pictures of a lady, by the way she was an Iowan, and I believe the last picture was in the morgue. So that is the end result of an addict that takes this to the `nth degree, and the odds of being successful on rehab, somewhere between the first time if there is conviction, maybe never if they really do not want to get cured, but six or eight times, one in six or eight might be one of those numbers then. So it sets the framework then I think for the center of this I would like to see us all focus more on. Yes, push interdiction as much as we can, and let us get treatment for the people that we can help but in between all that is the deterrent portion of it. In between that is the testing portion that you brought up and something that I worked with. Nine years ago, when I was elected to the Iowa Senate, one of my intense planks in my platform was I will work to rewrite Iowa's drug testing law. As a contractor and employer I have dealt with meth addicts on a construction crew. In fact, I was required to sign contracts where I would pledge a drug-free workplace in order to be able to apply for a Federal contract, and yet, there was no way I could guarantee a drug- free workplace because we did not have a law that allowed me to test my employees. Well, today we do. On St.…”