Elijah Cummings: “I strongly, by the way, support this amendment. Ms. Jackson-Lee talked about a recent Washington Post article from…”

“I strongly, by the way, support this amendment. Ms. Jackson-Lee talked about a recent Washington Post article from February 10 describing how girls are trying alcohol and drugs at a higher rate than boys, and then she went on to talk about the national survey on drug use and how it found that some 730,000 girls between the ages of 12-17 started smoking cigarettes in 2004, and it got compared with 565,000 boys, and then the 675,000 girls starting to use marijuana compared to 577,000 boys. It seems that there is something going on here that we definitely need to look at. I know the chairman will work in conference to try to make sure that we address all of these problems. I would definitely support the amendment.”