Drug Problem in Schools and Colleges: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Judiciary and Education of the Committeeon the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session ... September 23, 1986

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Page 1 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND EDUCATION, COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 9:45 am, in room 1310, Longworth House Office Building, Hon.
Page 48 - ... EDUCATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BEFORE THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA REGARDING THE REVISED FY 1991 AND FY 1992 BUDGET REQUESTS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS MAY 29, 1991 GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIRMAN DIXON AND MEMBERS OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE. I AM R. DAVID HALL, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. IT IS MY PLEASURE TO COME BEFORE YOU THIS AFTERNOON TO ADDRESS THE DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS' REVISED FY 1991 AND FY 1992...
Page 72 - Now she's got to go back again to the hospital, and the first thing that they will do when they get her back in there is take a lien on that home. I think that the Congress of the United States and the Senate of the United States should look into that, and somehow the people of the State of California should get up in arms and get rid of this dictatorship by the county supervisors.
Page 19 - Our remand should therefore, entail only a very short delay before the Commission. If its order is attacked in court the hearing there can be expedited, as was this one, and an early determination made. We do not believe that this is too high a price to pay to make as certain as human ingenuity can devise, a just and reasonable disposition of this matter for all of the parties. After all, it is the largest railroad merger in our history and if not handled properly could seriously disrupt and irreparably...
Page 22 - I would like briefly to summarize my comments and would like to submit my full statement for the record. Mr. DYMALLY. Without objection, it is so ordered. Mr.
Page 85 - Thus, if we can blame crime on crack, our politicians are off the hook. Forgotten are the failed schools, the malign welfare programs, the desolate neighborhoods, the wasted years. Only crack is to blame. One is tempted to think that if crack did not exist, someone somewhere would have received a Federal grant to develop it.
Page 26 - States during 1980, up 22 percent from 1979. The enormous profits available make drug trafficking an attractive venture, which some people believe is worth the risks inherent in such an illegal enterprise. We must increase those risks. It is time for drug traffickers to face stiffer penalties for their actions. The United States has worked in cooperation with foreign countries to bring about a reduction in drug cultivation, processing and trafficking.
Page 79 - The tests are very easy to do badly and very difficult to do well", Dr. Finkle said. Dr. Don H. Gat 1 in, chief of clinical pharmacology at the University of California at Los Angeles, said that drug-testing firms "vary tremendously in quality from laboratory to laboratory as well as within the same laboratory on a day-to-day basis because the tests require skill in interpretation, and the reliability of the results depend on who does the test.
Page 3 - I would like to submit a prepared statement for the record. [The prepared statement of Mr. Fauntroy follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN WALTER E. FAUNTROY...

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