Political Quotes

“thank you for reversing a trend that has happened in this country over the last 5 years. This bill changes a trend that has seen a reduction in drug interdiction. It has seen a reduction in the ability to stop children from using drugs. Your work, Mr. Chairman, has changed this whole issue. What we do in this bill is increase the ability for the Drug Enforcement Administration to renew counternarcotics attacks on those countries who grow the drugs and manufacture drugs. We have given our country the ability to go into those countries and crush those drug growing and manufacturing areas. Let me just say one very simple illustration. If you have seen on TV the last couple nights about ruby red, a new type of heroin that teenagers use, they smoke it because the purity has gone from 4 to 90 percent. We will be able to stop the infusion through Colombia, who used to use cocaine, now using ruby red, a more devastating drug to teenagers then anything we have ever seen. This bill will help us stop that. I support its passage and really salute the chairman of the committee who has made this happen.”