Speech by Rep. Jim Ramstad (R-Minnesota), March 29, 2000

Speech by Rep. Jim Ramstad (R-Minnesota), March 29, 2000
Mr. RAMSTAD. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 30 seconds to respond to my friend, the distinguished gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young).

I just want to repeat this. The bottom line is this: We will never curb the drug epidemic until we curb the insatiable demand for drugs here at home. We can put up all the fences on our border, hire all the border patrol money can buy, go after the source, spend all the money in crop eradication, interdiction, but until Congress realizes that the fundamental problem is the addiction that causes people to crave and demand drugs, not the supply, we will never put a dent in this problem.

Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell), the cosponsor of the amendment.

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