Speech #1140079821

Last year we received less than $1 millionalmost a 50percent reduction. I had the chance to travel with Senator HOEVEN down to our southern border of Texas last spring because we both are on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security. We talked with some of our Customs and Border Patrol employees who were down on the border in Laredo and were interdicting drugs down on our southern border. One of the things they talked about is that drugs are coming across our southern border and they are going up the Interstate Highway System. They are going up Interstate 95 to northern New Hampshire.