I would like to thank the members of the committee and our witnesses today for your testimony.
What is the policy of the DEA on mandatory minimums?
Federal court, where you have the draconian mandatory minimums, have been shown to have a discriminatory impact.
I am pleased to join you in convening this oversight hearing on our Nation's Drug Enforcement Agency.
Research indicates the demand reduction through prevention, education, and treatment is much more effective than supply ...
You are adding to the crime rather than detracting from it.
I consider it our responsibility in supporting and directing their efforts to ensure that their dedication and sacrifice...
You don't have a position supporting mandatory minimums as a crime-fighting tool?
I want the United States to stand with those brave Egyptians and we don't want the word to spread that somehow we only c...
I support the direction the Administration is taking us, and continue to believe that Congress should enact baseline pri...
there is nothing funny about it.
Would you also agree with me that when the President said, 'because I am capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, yo...
these costs will be passed on to the consumers?
trillions of dollars that will be passed on to the consumers, which will disproportionately hurt the working class, the ...
But if we put such huge pressures on American industries that they take their jobs to these other parts of the world, wo...
we are trying to slow the train wreck down somehow.
My experience also coming from coal country is is that coal is under assault and that it is driving up electric prices j...
the consumers who get hit the hardest are in fact the poor, the working poor, and the elderly?