Mark Souder: “I believe the media campaign is one of our only national programs that we have to try to reduce demand for illegal…”

“I believe the media campaign is one of our only national programs that we have to try to reduce demand for illegal drugs, and I appreciate the efforts of the gentleman from Georgia as well as other members of our subcommittee to try to hold accountability and effectiveness in the media campaign, and we agree on that fundamental point. I am very disturbed about some of the process of the bidding. I am disturbed about the violations of the law that Ogilvy has committed. I am concerned about the processes of how the creativity is done. But I also do not want the media campaign to go dark which the administration has maintained could happen depending on how this goes. I am concerned that if the Senate language and the House language are too similar, this could be conferenced and not give us the flexibility.”