October 28, 1998
I am making an additional $732 million in emergency funding available to support antidrug activities and drug interdiction. These funds were provided in the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, which I signed into law on Wednesday, October 21st.
Of the total amount I am making available, funds are distributed as follows:
- Department of Agriculture: $23,000,000
- Department of Defense: $42,000,000
- Department of Justice: $20,200,000
- Department of State: $232,600,000
- Department of Transportation: $133,700,000
- Department of the Treasury: $277,500,000
- Office of National Drug Control Policy: $1,200,000
- Federal Drug Control Programs: $2,000,000
NOTE: H.R. 4328, the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, was assigned Public Law No. 105-277.
William J. Clinton, Statement on Emergency Funding for Antidrug Activities Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/225320