Elijah Cummings: “I rise tonight to announce the fact that I introduce tonight the Dawson Community Family Protection Act of 2005. In my…”

“I rise tonight to announce the fact that I introduce tonight the Dawson Community Family Protection Act of 2005. In my district in Baltimore, unfortunately, about 2 years ago we had a family of seven incinerated in the middle of the night because they wanted to cooperate with the police, and drug thugs made a decision that they would burn them up instead of allowing them to cooperate with the police. The Dawson Family Community Protection Act would require the director of National Drug Control Policy to direct each year a minimum of $5 million in HIDTA funds to support HIDTA initiatives aimed at increasing safety and encouraging cooperation in neighborhoods like the Dawson's.”