Excerpt from Report From the Front Line: The Drug Battle in Central Florida: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, October 14, 1996
The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:11 a.m., in the Lake Mary City Hall Hearing Chamber, Lake Mary, FL, Hon. William H. Zeliff, Jr. (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.
Present: Representatives Zeliff, Mica, Souder, Sanford, and McCollum.
Staff present: Michele Lang, special counsel; Chris Marston, legislative assistant; and Dan Hernandez, minority professional staff member.
Mr. Zeliff. The Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice will now come to order.
First, I would like to thank you all for participating in what I consider to be - we all consider to be probably the most serious issue facing our country, and that is the effort of our Nation's drug war, particularly as combined with crime.
I am very pleased to be down here at the request of our good friend John Mica. He has been a tremendous leader in this issue and been a tremendous leader on the subcommittee. This hearing is being held at his request and we are very happy also to have Bill McCollum, the chairman of the Crime Subcommittee, who has done such great work here, and you should be very proud of both of these gentlemen, as they are both from this great State of Florida.
To my right, far right, Mark Sanford from South Carolina and Mark Souder from Indiana. We are very pleased that you all could make it as well.
I would like to say that John Mica has been a leader in this drug war effort back in the days in 1983 and 1984, when he was a member of the U.S. Senate staff when they wrote the Federal law that denies foreign and U.S. financial aid to countries that fail to stop drug production and trafficking; and he has been a tremendous leader in this effort.
I just would like to - before I turn it over to my colleagues, just say to you about 2 years ago, I took over the chairmanship of this subcommittee. At that point, no one was talking about the war on drugs.
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