Mark Souder: “I wanted to reiterate the gentleman's last point. This is a prevention and interdiction tool to help reach people before…”

“I wanted to reiterate the gentleman's last point. This is a prevention and interdiction tool to help reach people before they become heavy addicts. That is why it is targeted at the schools. There is a body of law that has to be followed. This program will be thrown out in any school that does not follow the body of law. In 1989 and 1990 in the omnibus drug bill, my former boss in the Senate, the junior Senator from Indiana, whose name I guess I cannot say here on the floor, that we had an amendment based off of a high school in West Lafayette, Indiana where the baseball team had an outfielder who got hit on the head with a fly ball. And he was a very good fielder. The question was, how did he miss a fly ball? A similar thing happened, I think, to the third baseman. In that process, they decided to drug-test their baseball team. They found that one-third were high. So they decided to put in a policy of drug testing on athletes and then cheerleaders.”