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Porter Goss: “I take very seriously, living in Florida, which is not unlike the problem in California, of drug smuggling and the…”

On the recordJuly 9, 1997
I take very seriously, living in Florida, which is not unlike the problem in California, of drug smuggling and the impact we see on our streets. We have a problem. We are not insensitive to this, I assure my colleague, and I assure her that there are unfolding events every minute in the war on drugs, every minute, and the intelligence part of that we are attending to. We are committing dollars, and we hope we have the gentlewoman's support for our budget for those dollars.
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Porter Goss
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Discussing drug smuggling issues and budget support for drug enforcement efforts.

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