Mark Souder: “I wanted to thank Mr. Zeliff, the chairman of the subcommittee, for raising the issue of the drug war and the battle…”

“I wanted to thank Mr. Zeliff, the chairman of the subcommittee, for raising the issue of the drug war and the battle that we need to do, because we had abandoned it for some time, and say what a privilege it has been to work on his subcommittee, to do the hearings over time, and to initiate this trip. We really had a strong team. Mr. Mica, who had experience as a staffer, as an international businessman, and on the plane we could work together, and in your skill as a Representative of leadership and for them to know that they had the subcommittee chairman of multiple committees. It was amazing as we went into some of these countries, they heard of Mr. Zeliff. They said, 'Oh, yes, he is the person who has brought drugs back in front.' I heard several leaders of those countries take them aside. Your smoothness when we went into Mexico, it was a difficult situation.”