If there is one message, Madam Chairman, that I want to communicate to the Egyptian people today, it is that there are a number of us, not just on Capitol Hill but across the United States, who look forward to an ongoing personal…

I want to make sure it's quantifiable.

I am extremely troubled, based on the testimony today, that your request is to cut a program.

We've done quite a bit of criminal justice reform in the State of Georgia, and we've talked about it here in Congress.

I understand that, but let me tell you, I've got a HIDTA program in three counties, and that is McDowell, Buncombe, and Henderson County in my district, and the only common thread there is transportation.

So let me put it bluntly. Will my sheriffs agree that we need to increase the amount of money going to treatment and prevention in HIDTA and go away from them? Would they agree with that?

I want to be clear and up front that there were elements of the performance review summary that helped in our ability to continue to monitor performance.

you're going to meet great resistance in a bipartisan way here, I think, if that's truly the direction.

I'm willing to really look at that to make sure that you have the resources necessary.

we're taking a program that what my local law enforcement officers say works with them, it's a critical tool.

Performance is all about it, and if we are spending billions of dollars, and we are not getting what we need, then we need to reallocate those funds, okay?

So how do you do that by getting rid of an evaluation program?