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DOD COUNTERNARCOTICS: WHAT IS CONGRESS
GETTING FOR ITS MONEY?

HEARING

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE,
DRUG POLICY AND HUMAN RESOURCES

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENT REFORM

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

APRIL 21, 2004

Serial No. 108-208

11.2005

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COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM

DAN BURTON, Indiana

TOM DAVIS, Virginia, Chairman

CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut
ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida
JOHN M. MCHUGH, New York
JOHN L. MICA, Florida
MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana
STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio

DOUG OSE, California

RON LEWIS, Kentucky

JO ANN DAVIS, Virginia

TODD RUSSELL PLATTS, Pennsylvania
CHRIS CANNON, Utah

ADAM H. PUTNAM, Florida
EDWARD L. SCHROCK, Virginia

JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR., Tennessee
NATHAN DEAL, Georgia

CANDICE S. MILLER, Michigan
TIM MURPHY, Pennsylvania
MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio
JOHN R. CARTER, Texas

MARSHA BLACKBURN, Tennessee
PATRICK J. TIBERI, Ohio

KATHERINE HARRIS, Florida

HENRY A. WAXMAN, California
TOM LANTOS, California
MAJOR R. OWENS, New York
EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York
PAUL E. KANJORSKI, Pennsylvania
CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York
ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland
DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio
DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois

JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts
WM. LACY CLAY, Missouri

DIANE E. WATSON, California

STEPHEN F. LYNCH, Massachusetts

CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, Maryland

LINDA T. SANCHEZ, California

C.A. "DUTCH" RUPPERSBERGER, Maryland ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District of Columbia

JIM COOPER, Tennessee

BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont (Independent)

MELISSA WOJCIAK, Staff Director

DAVID MARIN, Deputy Staff Director/Communications Director
ROB BORDEN, Parliamentarian
TERESA AUSTIN, Chief Clerk

PHIL BARNETT, Minority Chief of Staff/Chief Counsel

SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE, DRUG POLICY AND HUMAN RESOURCES

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J. MARC WHEAT, Staff Director

NICHOLAS COLEMAN, Professional Staff Member and Counsel
TONY HAYWOOD, Minority Counsel

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DOD COUNTERNARCOTICS: WHAT IS
CONGRESS GETTING FOR ITS MONEY?

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2004

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE, DRUG POLICY AND

HUMAN RESOURCES,

COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM,

Washington, DC.

The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:04 a.m., in room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Mark E. Souder (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.

Present: Representatives Souder, Cummings, and Norton.

Staff present: J. Marc Wheat, staff director and chief counsel; Nicholas Coleman, professional staff member and counsel; John Stanton and David Thomasson, congressional fellows; Malia Holst, clerk; Tony Haywood, minority counsel; and Cecelia Morton, minority office manager.

Mr. SOUDER. The subcommittee hearing will come to order.

Good morning. Because of the consistent jurisdictional focus of this subcommittee on the President's National Drug Control Strategy, we pay very close attention to demand reduction, treatment, and drug supply and interdiction initiatives. Our oversight activities continually evaluate departmental authorizations, appropriations, and the efficiency and effectiveness of departmental efforts. The President's budget request, now before Congress, asks for approximately $12.6 billion for the Strategy in 2005. The Department of Defense is to be appropriated almost 15 percent of that sum.

The most compelling reason for my tenacity in this regard is the loss of life due to drugs in my district and all over this great Nation. This year, more than 21,000 Americans died from drug-related causes. We have never lost this many Americans annually to a single military or terrorist campaign. This staggering statistic is significant when placed in perspective: we have lost in excess of 600 brave Americans in Iraq since Operation Enduring Freedom began, which is about 2.9 percent of those lost to drugs over the same period of time. We have lost more Americans to drugs than were killed in any single terrorist act to date. It is vitally important that we maintain vigorous efforts to control the sources of supply for narcotics and to interdict them before reaching the United States.

The Department of Defense has been appropriately authorized to conduct counternarcotics missions and was designated the lead department for many counternarcotics command, control, detection, monitoring, and training responsibilities in the 1989 DOD author

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