John Kerry: “And that is true. I want to finish the thought and then I will be happy to yield to my friend. It is true all it does is…”

“And that is true. I want to finish the thought and then I will be happy to yield to my friend. It is true all it does is authorize it. We all know what happens when the appropriators ultimately get those pressures put in front of them, and you have Department of Defense, Coast Guard or other kinds of antidrug efforts competing against something that we have never done before in America, which is sufficiently empower our antismoking efforts, sufficiently try at that early entry level to keep kids from being hooked. I respectfully suggest to my colleague, this is well intentioned, and I know he is sincere in his passion about wanting to stop drugs and is caring about this, and I agree with him completely that the efforts to date are insufficient. No question about it. But I also believe very strongly that we ought to approach this in a commonsense way. I yield to my friend for a question without losing my right to finish my time.”