Mark Souder: “I would like to conclude, Madam Speaker. We are about out of time here. If the gentleman could put the one chart up…”

“I would like to conclude, Madam Speaker. We are about out of time here. If the gentleman could put the one chart up there that had Colombia on it. And let me thank the gentleman for laying out systematically the background of the problems that we have and the immediate pressure that we have in front of us. Just yesterday, right before I did my 5-minute speech, they delivered a report on the Western Hemisphere Drug Alliance and the President of the United States. It is in yesterday's Congressional Record. Not only do they not have the dollars to continue the interdiction efforts, but in this document we are seeing more of what the Speaker, myself, and the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Shadegg) heard when we went down to the Summit of the Americas. We heard at that point that the proposal that the President is holding out is a counternarcotics multilateral evaluation mechanism in the hemisphere. Basically, what they want to eliminate is what the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mica) first developed as a staffer for Senator Hawkins, the drug certification process.”