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- Subject: No Drug Tests for White House
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 03:38:00 GMT
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- DRUG TESTS FOR SENIOR WHITE HOUSE STAFFERS PUT OFF UNTIL FEBRUARY
- 15 WASHINGTON (JAN. 22) UPI - Drug tests for senior White House
- staff members have been put off until Feb. 15 for "administrative
- reasons," President Clinton's spokewoman said Friday.
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- Press secretary Dee Dee Myers confirmed The Washington Times
- report that drug testing rules for top ranking White House
- personnel have been waived for a month to permit the aides to get
- settled in their jobs.
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- The waiver was issued by Bruce Lindsey, the White House personnel
- director, for new employees during the transition.
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- The urine tests, ordered first in the Reagan administration and
- continued in the Bush White House, were to determine whether there
- was any involvement in cocaine, marijuana or other drugs.
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- Meantime, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, called on Clinton Friday to
- direct his senior staff to immediately submit to drug tests "to
- clear up the issue."
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- Barton said it takes a month to clear the blood of drug use.
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- "If they have nothing to hide it won't matter and if they do, they
- shouldn't serve," Barton said.
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- "The American people must have the confidence that those running
- our country have drug free minds, especially when critical
- judgment is necessary for important matters of national security,"
- Barton said.
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- Transmitted: 93-01-22 15:10:00 EST
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