Political Quotes

“I rise to talk about a couple of amendments that were included in the legislation we voted on here this afternoon in the Senate. I am speaking of the Food and Drug Administration legislation. That legislation included two very important amendments that deal with combating legal drug abuse here in this country. I want to start by thanking my colleagues, Senators Schumer, Klobuchar, Grassley, and Enzi, for helping to develop and promote this legislation over many months. The legislation addresses what is called synthetic drugs. I also want to thank them for helping see it through to passage as an amendment today. Senator Grassley actually shared with me a story a few weeks ago of a young man from Iowa, David Mitchell Rozga, an 18-year-old, who sadly took his life after using this synthetic drug known as K2, or spice. It is synthetic marijuana. He had purchased it legally at a local shopping mall. In recent weeks, we have seen lots of news accounts of some of the savage acts committed by people high on these synthetic drugs, such as the widely reported cannibalism in Miami, FL. I saw today another horrible story about another man in Waco, TX. We have seen lots of deaths reported in my home State of Ohio due to synthetic drugs. Very recently we had a report of the Columbus, OH, police having to shoot two men who were high on what are called bath salts. One was shot fatally.…”