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Excerpt from National Drug Control Policy; The Decline of Interdiction Efforts in the Caribbean: 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, May 23, 1996
The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:40 a.m., in room 2154, Raybum House Office Building, Hon. William H. Zeliff (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.
Present: Representatives Zeliff, Ehrlich, Ros-Lehtinen, Souder, Thurman, Slaughter, and Cummings.
Staff present: Robert B. Charles, staff director and chief counsel; Robert J. Shea and Sean Littlefield, professional staff members; Sally Dionne, clerk; and Cherri Branson and Dan Hernandez, minority professional staff members.
Mr. Zeliff. Good morning. The Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice hearing on our Nations drug war will come to order.
I want to thank you all for coming. We will have additional Members that will be joining us here shortly, but in the interest of time we wanted to move forward. This is the second in a series of hearings to examine the Presidents national drug control strategy.
Today, we are focusing on the national security threat posed by rising maritime drug trafficking in the Caribbean transit zone, and the dramatic decline in Federal resources requested by the President and devoted to drug interdiction between 1993 and 1996.
We are privileged to have with us today Adm. Robert Kramek, who has done outstanding work as the Presidents Interdiction Coordinator and as Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. Admiral Kramek has been a tremendous leader in the drug war. His efforts have been widely appreciated in Congress, and he is held in the highest respect by this subcommittee.
We are also pleased today to be releasing a new GAO report entitled, "U.S. Interdiction Efforts in the Caribbean Decline," and to have those investigators with us for testimony.
Finally, we are very pleased to have with us several hands-on witnesses direct from the transit zone.
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