Speech #970192101

So this is a real problem. The funding reductions adopted last year severely impacted the ability of Federal law enforcement agencies to do their job. The following table shows the dollar amount as well as the number of agents reduced in each bureau. [Dollars in thousands] Agents Federal Bureau of Investigation ...................... $60.722 354 Immigration and Naturalization ....................... 37.307 248 Drug Enforcement Administration ................... 8.596 555 Total .................................................. 106.625 1.157 This is where we get down to where we can talk polemically of spend and spend and tax and tax. Let us not talk at the Federal level about law enforcement because the Congress does nothing to assist that effort. On the contrary. we are cutting funds for law enforcement.