From: Jim Rosenfield <[j n r] at [igc.apc.org]>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Senators to "Study" Teen Drug Use
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 07:33:51 -0800 (PST)

Although it looks like this is a panel that already has its mind
made up, you are invited in participating in an informational
outreach to the participants.   Contact me if you'd like to
participate in an organized effort:

Wed, 13 Dec 1995 14:10:24 PST

   WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Clinton administration anti-drug policy
is "in utter disarray" so House and Senate Republicans will step
in to provide leadership on the issue, congressional leaders said
Wednesday.
   Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, criticized the administration's
strategy at a news conference, saying it puts too much emphasis on
treating hard-core drug users and not enough on law enforcement
and interdiction.
   He described the policy as being "in utter disarray" and said
Congress has a chance to provide badly needed leadership on the
issue.
   "It's time to get tough with this stuff," Hatch said.  Senate
   Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., and House Speaker
Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., teamed to announce formation of an 18-
member task force that will spend three months studying ways to
combat teen-age drug use.
   Recent studies have shown that drug use is increasing among the
young, after declining in the 1980s, Dole said.
   "Our children are using more dope, more cocaine and more heroin
at any time in recent memory," Dole said. "We cannot allow these
trends to continue."
   The task force will hold public meetings, question experts and
issue a report in March. It will be co-chaired by Hatch, Sen.
Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa; Rep. Bill Zeliff, R-N.H.; and Rep. Henry
Hyde, R-Ill.
   Its formation was announced a day after President Clinton said
White House drug policy director Lee Brown was resigning to teach
at Rice University in Houston.
  Other members were Sen. Spencer Abraham, R-Mich.  Sen. John
Ashcroft, R-Mo.  Sen. Paul Coverdell, R-Ga.  Sen. Alfonse D'Amato,
R-N.Y.  Sen. Mike Dewine, R-Ohio Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison,
R-Texas Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine Rep. Michael Forbes, R-N.Y.
Rep. Ben Gilman, R-N.Y.  Rep. Bill McCollum, R-Fla.  Rep. Rob
Portman, R-Ohio Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.  Rep. Clay Shaw,
R-Fla.  and Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla.



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