Mark Souder: “tonight I am going to give an overview of the war on illegal narcotics in the United States. I chair the Subcommittee on…”

“tonight I am going to give an overview of the war on illegal narcotics in the United States. I chair the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Drug Policy and Human Services in the Government Reform Committee, which when the Republicans took over Congress in 1994, was reorganized by then Chairman Bill Zeliff followed by the gentleman from Illinois (Chairman Hastert) followed by the gentleman from Florida (Chairman Mica), and now myself, to be a committee where we could do an overview of all of the different parts of the war on illegal drugs. The challenge we have in narcotics is that this battle goes across many different agencies, and so it gets divided up somewhere in the neighborhood of 23 to 25 subcommittees in the House, a similar amount in the Senate, and nobody had been looking at it comprehensively. So it wound up over in this committee.…”