Gene Taylor said "right now, we have no means of asking someone who shows up at work apparently stoned out of their mind, there is absolutely nothing right now their supervisor can do. I would like to give him the opportunity to say, I think you ought to take a drug test. Let me make this perfectly clear. In order to make it constitutional, since the gentleman did have a question, this is for new hires as a subject of a condition of employment. When someone walks in, from the passage of this bill forward, they know that if they accept a job with the Federal Government, as a condition of employment they are subject to drug testing. That is clearly constitutional, because it is done every day in the private sector as a condition of employment." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordSeptember 16, 1998

right now, we have no means of asking someone who shows up at work apparently stoned out of their mind, there is absolutely nothing right now their supervisor can do. I would like to give him the opportunity to say, I think you ought to take a drug test. Let me make this perfectly clear. In order to make it constitutional, since the gentleman did have a question, this is for new hires as a subject of a condition of employment. When someone walks in, from the passage of this bill forward, they know that if they accept a job with the Federal Government, as a condition of employment they are subject to drug testing. That is clearly constitutional, because it is done every day in the private sector as a condition of employment.

Said by

Gene Taylor

Mississippi

Source

govinfo.gov

Editor's note · Context

Discussing drug testing for new hires in federal employment.

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