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we're taking a program that what my local law enforcement officers say works with them, it's a critical tool.

I understand that, but let me tell you, I've got a HIDTA program in three counties, and that is McDowell, Buncombe, and Henderson County in my district, and the only common thread there is transportation.

Thank you so much. I appreciate the fact that you acknowledge maybe deficiencies, but also areas where performance was good.

We've done quite a bit of criminal justice reform in the State of Georgia, and we've talked about it here in Congress.

you're going to meet great resistance in a bipartisan way here, I think, if that's truly the direction.

So how do you do that by getting rid of an evaluation program?

I am extremely troubled, based on the testimony today, that your request is to cut a program.

But Anderson, there is another point here and I like to address. We don't even know that it's three gunmen. I mean, the information that has been out there and reported in the media right now is sparse.

I want to be clear and up front that there were elements of the performance review summary that helped in our ability to continue to monitor performance.

The idea now is to not set up an initial ...