NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I would say, in fairness, I am glad that our friend, General McCaffrey, has been given charge of the war on drugs, but…”

“I would say, in fairness, I am glad that our friend, General McCaffrey, has been given charge of the war on drugs, but that does not excuse the fact that this administration has basically been AWOL in that war for the first 2 rac{1}{2} years, almost 3 years of its time in office. So again, it is a case of too little, too late; or a type of 'me too-ism' that smacks of electioneering, that smacks of opportunism, rather than a genuine quest to make the changes the gentleman from Georgia mentioned are so necessary. It is borne out in other figures in the President's budget. Oh, sure, there are modest increases, for example, for the Drug Enforcement Agency, for the number of employees; for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, for the Border Patrol. But yet, but yet, the glaring problem is this: that more and more money is put away so that upwards of 115,000 people in Bill Clinton's budget would be employed in the Internal Revenue Service; easily, what, three times the number of people, or close to that, employed with the INS or the Border Patrol. So the message in fact is this: We may not have time to fight the war on drugs, we may not have the ability to protect the sanctity of our borders, but, by golly, we have the time to come and audit you, Mr. and Mrs.…”