Political Quotes

“to draw attention to the meth crisis facing Oregon and a growing number of States around the country, I stand once again on the floor of the Senate introducing two more newspaper articles into the Record. Both articles highlight the plight of the most vulnerable victims of the meth crisis: America's children. As the first piece, ``The Little Round Faces of Meth,'' from The Oregonian points out, ``The drug lurks behind nearly all of Oregon's most shocking and horrifying cases of child abuse and neglect.'' The second article, ``A Drug Scourge Creates Its Own Form of Orphan'' was printed in the New York Times a little over a week ago. As the article explains, ``In Oregon, 5,515 children entered the [foster care] system in 2004, up from 4,946 the year before, and officials there say the caseload would be half what it is now if the methamphetamine problem suddenly went away.'' The burden that meth is placing on Oregon communities is enormous. And we have to do something about it. Because even if we get the epidemic under control right now, we are going to be dealing with the consequences for years to come. And one of these consequences will be taking care of the child victims of meth.…”