Speech #1000135126

I would like to give you a little bit of meat on the bone because it is so easy to vote for acrosstheboard cuts if you really do not know what it is you are doing. We are going to be cutting from the administrations request for an 8percent increase in the Drug Enforcement Administration that we agreed to. In the middle of our war on drugs. this would have us reverse our priorities in that area. We would cut back on the Immigration and Naturalization Service. just as we are attempting to implement immigration reform. This would be a cutback of 11 percent. There is a 15percent cut in the Federal prision program. while there is a growing prison population and overcrowding that produces riots.