bandy@lll-crg.ARpA (Andrew Scott Beals) (03/19/86)
Washington
An embarrassed member of the President's Commission on Organized
Crime refused a demand yesterday to give a urine sample for a drug test
before he could testify about making such tests mandatory for all
federal workers.
An unsuspecting Rodney Smith, deputy executive director of the
commission, was seated at the witness table of the House Post Office
and Civil Service human resources subcommittee, when asked to take the
test at the outset of the hearing by chairman Gary Ackerman, D-NY.
"The chair will require you to go to the men's room under the direct
observation of a male member of the subcommittee staff to urinate in this
specimen bottle," Ackerman said, as aids placed a three-inch plastic
specimen bottle on the witness table before him.
Smith, complaining that he was not warned that such a test would be
necessary for him to testify, called the move "a cheap stunt" and
angrily complained later that the subcommittee embarrassed him before
television cameras.
Ackerman pointed out that under the presidental commission's proposal,
federal workers would have to warning either and said Smith's protests
underscored the subcommittee's concerns.
UPI, reprinted without permission from Wednesday 19 March 1986's San
Francisco Chronicle
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