John Mica: “that is right. The gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Souder) and my other colleagues, we requested of the administration to…”

“that is right. The gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Souder) and my other colleagues, we requested of the administration to put some specifics in their budget that we know will work, that we know will be effective. For example, we have been promoting a microherbicide program and research and development because we know we have the technical capability to destroy drugs as a crop. It is a simple process. It can be done. We are making advances in that. We asked for a few dollars to effectively develop the final techniques to make this happen. Is it in the President's budget? No. Is it cost effective? Yes. Now, the other thing that the administration did back in the 1970s and 1980s and 1990s, in the 1970s and 1980s, as my colleagues heard, we increased our Customs, our air interdiction, our going after drug traffickers. We must have learned that, from 1993 to 1995, when we decreased that, when this administration, this Congress decreased that, that a mistake was made. Here we go again. Customs interdiction program, funds lacking. We know that is effective. We know it stops drugs before, again, it gets into our streets and our communities. Counterintelligence. If I have learned nothing else in dealing with this problem, I have learned that the most effective means of stopping drugs, of getting drugs close to their source before they get into our country is counterintelligence.”