Dan Boren: “I will just give my colleagues an example in my district. We have a terrible problem with methamphetamine. It is…”

“I will just give my colleagues an example in my district. We have a terrible problem with methamphetamine. It is happening everywhere, it is not just happening in rural areas, it is happening in urban areas. We have places in Le Flore County in Oklahoma where literally this is infiltrating not based on socioeconomics, the rich and the poor, it is affecting everyone. And one of the only tools that we have to fight this scourge of methamphetamine is the Byrne Grant Program. Under this budget, it was slashed. Once again, when we have the tools, we have the necessary tools, it is taken away. And I can think of the district attorneys and the drug task forces in my district that I have met with, the first responders who say, damn, we desperately need it. We need it in places like Heavener. And we are saying to them, no, we cannot do it because we are going to spend it somewhere else. I just wanted to give that example.”