On the recordMarch 13, 1997
Mr. Speaker, this resolution, House Joint Resolution 58, expresses congressional disapproval of the President's February 28, 1997, certification to Congress that Mexico has fully cooperated with our Nation's antinarcotics efforts during the past year. ... The importance of Mexico's cooperation with our antidrug efforts cannot be overstated, Mr. Speaker. In the past 4 years, drug use among American teenagers has nearly doubled. It has been estimated that 60 percent of our Nation's illegal drugs entering our country come from Mexico. The societal costs for the impact of these illicit drugs and the drug-related crime, incarceration, health care, among other costs, is staggering, in the billions of dollars.
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