November 17, 2005 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S13151 Alternatives Internationales, Amiens tion. However, I rise to explain that I across our national borders from State Me´tropole—JDA, Amina, Antena 3 TV, Arte, am voting for this bill reluctantly be- to State and city to city by sophisti- Associacio´ n de la Prensa de Ca´ diz, Assas/IFP, cause I feel that some of the funding cated drug cartels and street gangs. Avaldoci-Union Web periodistas, Azur FM, priorities set forth in the bill will leave How does a local sheriff prevent drugs Bel RTL (French-language Belgian radio sta- tion), BFM, Cadena SER, Cambio 16 our communities more vulnerable to that start out in a foreign country Aldateka Hamasei, Espacio de Informacion terrorist attacks traditional crime. In from being trafficked into his or her General (EIG), Cape Breton Post, Baden- particular, this bill continues the county? How does a police chief pre- Baden Press Club, Bordeaux Press Club, wrongheaded trend of slashing Federal vent the recruitment of local kids into Clermont-Ferrand Press Club, Lille Press funding for State and local law enforce- international street gangs? In my opin- Club, Montpellier Press Club, Nimes Press ment and important criminal justice ion, crime is a national problem, and it Club, La Semaine de Nıˆmes, Press Club of programs. This bill slashes funding for requires a national response. The COPS Saint-Etienne and La Loire, UCPF, the Justice Assistance Grant and the Program demonstrated the Federal Strasbourg Press Club, Toulon Press Club, COPS Program. And, for the first time, Government’s commitment to ap- Pays Basque Press Club, Grenoble and Ise`re Press Club, Corriere Canadese, Coup d’oeil/ the Congress has decided to zero out proach crime as a national problem— Vers l’avenir, Courrier International, the COPS hiring Program. I believe and it worked. Dernie`res Nouvelles d’Alsace, that this decision is a terrible mistake I would also point out that State and Diariocritico.com, Echo vedettes, Edmonton on so many levels, and I fear that our local law enforcement forms our first Sun, El Correo Espanol/El Pueblo Vasco, El Nation’s citizens will be less safe from line of defense against terrorism. Mundo, El Pais, El Periodico de Catalunya, traditional crime and terrorism as a re- Homeland security experts have point- El Punt, El Siglo, En Marche, Enjeux sult. Further, the bill slashes Federal ed out the value that community polic- internationaux, Festival International du assistance for the effective and cost-ef- ing programs can have in combating Scoop et du Journalisme, Flair/L’Hebdo, ficient drug court program by an as- France 2, France 3 sud Languedoc- terrorism. This only makes sense—it is Roussillon, France bleu pays d’Auvergne, tounding 75 percent. the local officer who knows the neigh- France Culture, France Info, France Inter, Back in 1994 when we passed the leg- borhood who will be able to provide the France Soir, Fun Radio, Gene`ve Home Infor- islation that created the COPS Pro- types information necessary to help in- mation (GHI), Grands Reportages, gram, our crime rates were at all-time filtrate a local terror cell. In addition, www.cubantrip.com, Ici, Il Manifesto highs. At that time, we made a com- it will be a local officer walking the (Rome)(Q), Institut Pratique de Journalisme, mitment to our State and local law en- beat who happens to catch a suspect ISR Info, JHR McGill Newsletter, forcement partners. During those trying to pump sarin gas into the local Kommunalarbetaren, L’Expansion, years, we invested roughly $2.1 billion ´ mall air-conditioning ducts. It won’t be L’Express, L’Express.fr, L’Humanite, for State and local law enforcement L’Union du Cantal, L’Union(s), La presse a brave Special Forces agent with dans tous ses e´tats CIBL, La Tribune, La each year and substantially upgraded night vision goggles; it will be a local Vanguardia, La Voz del Occidente, Le our ability to combat crime. We added cop walking the beat. In this era of un- Courrier Picard, Le Devoir, Le Figaro, Le over 100,000 officers to patrol our neigh- certainty, we need to be providing Journal du Dimanche, Le Ligueur, Le Maine borhoods, and we expanded crime pre- more support for our local police agen- libre, Le Monde, Le Mouv’, Le Nouvel vention programs such as community cies to help make their efforts against Observateur, Le Nouvelliste (Q), Le Peuple, policing programs across the Nation. terrorism and crime as robust as pos- Le Populaire du Centre, Le Quotidien What was the ultimate result? Crime ´ sible. Jurassien, Le Reflet, Le Republicain Lor- rates for violent crime, murder and rain, Le Semeur hebdo, Le Soir, Le Soir And by cutting the drug court pro- Magazine, Le Te´le´gramme de Brest et de rape were all reduced, and today they gram—one of the most effective pro- l’Ouest, Le Vif/L’Express, Les Cle´s de remain at all-time lows. Many law en- grams to reduce substance abuse in the l’Actualite´, Les Petites affiches, Lethbridge forcement experts and local officials criminal population—we are sending a Herald, Libe´ration, www.liberation.fr, credit the COPS Program for helping devastating message to the 16,000 indi- L’Inde´pendant, Maires de France, Mairie to achieve these results. In fact, no viduals that graduate from drug courts d’Arlanc, Mairie de Longeau, Mairie de one, to my knowledge, with law en- each year. We are telling them that we Nancy, Mairie de Romans/Romans Magazine, forcement expertise has argued other- don’t care that diversion programs are Maison de la presse de Charleroi, Maison de wise. The International Association of la presse de Mons, McGill Daily, Me´moire de successful at helping people overcome trame, Me´tro Belgique, Midi Libre, Chiefs of Police, the National Sheriffs addiction to reenter society as produc- Milhistorias, Miljo¨ rapporten, Mirror, Mozaik Association, the Fraternal Order of Po- tive citizens, holding down jobs, and re- Media, Nice Matin, NRJ, Okapi, Ottawa Cit- lice, the National Association of Police gaining custody of their children. We izen, Ottawa Sun, Ouest-France, Paca Infor- Organizations, and other local law en- are sending a message that we would mations e´conomiques, Paris Normandie, forcement groups all support the COPS prefer to revert to the bad old days of Pe`lerin magazine, Perfiles, Periodistas- Program. Attorney General Ashcroft locking up nonviolent drug offenders in es.org, Photographie.com, Plurimedias, has stated that the COPS Program was prisons where most will get no drug ‘‘Points chauds’’ sur Telequebec, Pressens a miraculous success, and Attorney Tidning, Prix Bayeux des correspondants de treatment and they will most likely guerre, Radio Classique, Radio contact/Con- General Gonzalez stated that the COPS just sink deeper into a life of crime. tact Inter Radio Coˆ te d’Amour, Radio Program put officers on the street and And what message are we sending to Nostalgie, REE, RFI, RMC, RNE, RTBF, we reduced crime. Moreover, a recent the 70,000 people currently enrolled in RTBF TV, RTL–TVI, Servimedia, report by the Government Account- drug courts who are working hard to So¨ dermanlands Nyheter, Star Phoenix, SVM ability Office concluded that COPS hir- live sober, crime-free lives? By slashing MAC, Te´le´ Bruxelles, Te´le´pro, Te´le´rama, ing grants had an impact on reducing funding for the drug court program we TF1, The Concordian, The Link, The Tele- crime rates. are telling them that we are not in- gram, Tiempo, TV3, TV3 de Catalunya, TV5 Why would the Congress eliminate a vested in their recovery and we are monde, TVE-Television nationale, UDF, Vers program that is strongly supported by l’avenir, Vlan, VSD, www.expotimes.net, putting their future in drug court pro- www.press-list.com, Les Journalistes- local law enforcement officials and has grams in jeopardy. e´crivains pour la Nature et l’Ecologie. been proven effective by statisticians It makes absolutely no sense to me f at the Government Accountability Of- that we are cutting this cost-effective fice? Well, it has its basis in ideology. program by 75 percent. By enrolling SCIENCE-STATE-JUSTICE Some of my Republican colleagues nonviolent drug offenders in drug APPROPRIATIONS argue that local crime is a local prob- courts, States save an enormous Mr. BIDEN. Mr. President, yesterday lem and the Federal Government amount of money. One study showed the U.S. Senate approved the con- should not be funding these local ef- that California’s drug courts save the ference report to accompany H.R. 2862, forts. I completely disagree. How can it State $18 million a year. Another study the Science-State-Justice appropria- be a local responsibility when roughly showed that every dollar spent on a tions bill. I voted for this legislation 60 percent of all the crimes committed drug court program saves the city of because it provides critical funding for in America relate to drugs, abuse of Dallas, TX, $9.43 over a 40 month pe- the Department of Justice, the FBI, drugs, and the sale and trafficking of riod. It is inconceivable to me that we and the Drug Enforcement Administra- illicit drugs? These drugs are smuggled would choose to cut this program. The

VerDate Aug 31 2005 00:22 Nov 19, 2005 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17NO6.085 S17NOPT2 S13152 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 17, 2005 National Association of Drug Court the same 32 percent rate. This will not have done this because on Feb- Professionals estimates that our ac- level the playing field for operations in ruary 21 they were more than 2 days’ tions here today will result in more Puerto Rico and operations in the walking distance from the crime scene. than 13,000 individuals losing access to States. I have a number of constituent It was soon determined, however, that drug court services. These 13,000 people corporations that operate in my State there were soldiers only half a day’s will likely continue their lives of crime and have operations in Puerto Rico, walk away, and army helicopters had and drugs and being a threat to public and this provision is important to recently been seen in the vicinity. safety instead of getting enrolled in a them. While it has not been proven who is tough-love program that will help I realize the proposal cannot be added responsible for this horrific crime, the them to turn their lives around and get to the budget reconciliation tax bill at government’s rush to judgment was sober. It is truly a tragedy. this time but am hopeful it will be con- only its first mistake. That was quick- It is my opinion that we found a win- sidered and enacted this year. ly followed by the decision, against the ning formula when we made the deci- I want to applaud Ways and Means wishes of the community, to send sion to invest in our State and local Committee Chairman BILL THOMAS for armed police officers into their midst. law enforcement partners and smart on introducing H.R. 4323, which includes While I do not doubt the authority of crime initiatives in the nineties, and I this extension of the manufacturing de- Colombian police to enter that terri- believe that we are making a terrible duction to Puerto Rico. I look forward tory, it caused the majority of its in- mistake when we reduce funding for to working with Chairman THOMAS to habitants to flee their homes out of them. There is no greater responsi- get this important provision enacted. fear that the police would become a bility of the Federal Government than f target of illegal groups and that the the protection of its citizens. This is villagers could once again be harmed. MASSACRE AT SAN JOSE DE true whether the threat comes from In fact, such an attack took place on APARTADO international terrorist or from a thug June 26, when three policemen were down the street, and I strongly believe Mr. LEAHY. I want to speak about a wounded in an attack by the FARC and that we are taking the wrong approach matter that I suspect few Senators are community members were caught in when we cut funding for our State and aware of, but which should concern the crossfire. Later, on July 18, an old local law enforcement partners. Sheriff each of us. man was found beaten to death. There Ted Sexton, the president of the Na- On February 21, 2005, in the small Co- were two more killings by the FARC, tional Sheriffs Association, got it right lombian community of San Jose de one in August and another in Sep- when he stated that ‘‘cuts of this mag- Apartado, eight people, including three tember, and verbal threats and acts of nitude will seriously inhibit our ability children, were brutally murdered. Sev- intimidation by soldiers and police of- to protect our communities and secure eral of the bodies were mutilated and ficers towards members of the commu- the homeland.’’ And, the president of left to be eaten by wild animals. nity have reportedly steadily in- the International Association of Chiefs This, unfortunately, was not unusual, creased. Then last month, there were of Police was correct in pointing out as some 150 people, overwhelmingly ci- three incidents in which armed that ‘‘demanding that we play a cen- vilians caught in the midst of Colom- paramilitaries and soldiers reportedly tral role in our Nation’s homeland se- bia’s conflict, have been killed by threatened members of the community curity efforts, while at the same time paramilitaries, rebels, and Colombian and destroyed property. It appears that cutting the resources we need to do our soldiers in that same community since the community may be no safer today job, is both hypocritical and irrespon- 1997. None of those crimes has resulted than it was on February 21. sible.’’ I hope that the Republican-led in effective investigations or prosecu- One of the consequences of the gov- Congress and President Bush will heed tions. No one has been punished. ernment’s tactless approach to this and the call of these brave men and women That is an astonishing fact. Think of previous cases is that several witnesses and fully fund these critical programs 150 murders, including massacres of from the community have refused to next year. groups of people, in a single rural com- come forward and give testimony, and munity, and no one punished. f this has hindered the investigation. This latest atrocity occurred in a re- After a massacre of 6 members of this MANUFACTURING DEDUCTION mote area frequented by rebels and same community 5 years ago when over LEGISLATION paramilitaries. As a result, the pres- 100 people gave testimony to judicial Mr. SANTORUM. I introduced a bill ence of the Colombian army has also authorities, no one was convicted and last month, S. 1816, that is vitally im- grown significantly there. Yet the no report on the investigation was ever portant to manufacturing businesses army, which was sent to that area to issued. Convincing witnesses to come and the workers they employ in Puerto protect civilians from attacks by ille- forward this time will require a degree Rico. My bill extends the benefits of gal armed groups, is now suspected by of sensitivity by the government that the manufacturing deduction, enacted some of having committed this mas- has, to date, been sorely lacking. last year with the American Jobs Cre- sacre. We are told by the Colombian Gov- ation Act of 2004, to apply to manufac- Residents of San Jose de Apartado ernment that an investigation of the turing operations that are conducted in have blamed the army, and inter- massacre is ongoing. That, unfortu- Puerto Rico and are subject to full U.S. national observers who went with com- nately, is the story of most heinous tax. munity members to locate the bodies crimes in Colombia. Investigations The new manufacturing deduction witnessed disturbing behavior by sol- often continue without end, and often means that U.S. businesses operating diers who reportedly laughed while the perpetrators avoid punishment. I in any of the 50 States will pay tax on body parts were being exhumed, who am concerned that this case may be no their manufacturing income at 32 per- took pictures of themselves making different. cent. Without the manufacturing de- victory signs, and who mishandled evi- According to information I have re- duction, U.S. businesses operating a dence from the massacre sites. There is ceived, neither the soldiers who were in branch in Puerto Rico will pay tax on also the possibility that paramilitaries the area at the time of the February 21 their manufacturing income at 35 per- acted in collusion with the army. And killings nor hospital workers who cent. This difference in tax treatment some have speculated that there were treated a girl who was wounded by sol- creates a disincentive for U.S. compa- two separate groups of perpetrators, diers there the previous day have been nies to conduct manufacturing oper- perhaps including the FARC, the Revo- interviewed by investigators. I find ations in Puerto Rico, distorting man- lutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, this hard to believe, but if it is correct ufacturing location choices and putting the country’s oldest rebel group. the government has much to answer Puerto Rico at a disadvantage in terms Even before an investigation began, for. of attracting and retaining investment. top Colombian officials publicly de- For 5 years, the United States has My bill makes sure that manufac- clared that the FARC was responsible. provided significant military aid to Co- turing in the 50 States and manufac- The Minister of Defense, who has since lombia despite ongoing concerns about turing in Puerto Rico will be taxed at resigned, insisted that the army could human rights. Several months ago, the

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