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Cass Ballenger: “here it is, the Washington Times headline for today: ``White House Buries Critical Drug Report.'' Mr. Speaker, let me…”

On the recordSeptember 26, 1996
here it is, the Washington Times headline for today: ``White House Buries Critical Drug Report.'' Mr. Speaker, let me quote the story. The Clinton administration, which has cut drug interdiction efforts by nearly $630 million since 1992, is sitting on a Pentagon commission report suggesting that President Clinton's shift to a drug treatment strategy has failed. The report, sent to the administration officials in May but never made public, said interdiction was the most successful and cost-effective way of dealing with the Nation's drug problem. Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe that the White House actively suppressed knowledge of this report. It boggles the minds to know that when confronted with evidence of failure of their own policies, that the White House would look the other way. It is simply too much to accept that the President would do virtually nothing, knowing full well of the explosion of teen drug use. This is unbelievable.
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Cass Ballenger
North Carolina
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Addressing the Clinton administration's handling of a critical drug report.

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