The Senator from West Virginia praises my efforts on setting up a National Drug Director. and he read from the statute that we all wrote. and then he says. "Should we not wait until this fellow comes back with his report in September?" Well. that implies that we should just put a screeching halt on all our spending. anything we have to do with drug law and law enforcement. and wait until this fellow comes back with his proposal. It also implies that the money we thought that we needed to spend on additional agents. on additional education. on additionalall the things we listed in the drug bill. is something that somehow we are going to jettison. depending on what this Drug Director comes up with. this de novo initiative that he is going to make. So. on the one hand. my colleague says. "Hey. look. we do not need to spend any more money. because all that we had in the pipeline had not been spent yet." implying that by the time the fiscal year is over. there is going to be no need for any more money. and by the way. implying that when you say to an agency. we want you to add on somewhere around 200 new DEA agents and 250 new immigration and naturalization agents. and more FBI agents and all the rest. that somehow they should not plan that they are going to be able to spend that. no matter how long it takes them to get that done. Anyway. he says. we have that. we do not need the money. and by the way. parenthetically. even if we did need the money. we are spending too much anyway. we are throwing money at problems. but by the way. I think that drug bill was a very important thing that we did last year. and by the way. we should wait. anyway. until the Drug Director gives us a plan before we do anything anyway.
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