Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007

FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION ACT, FISCAL YEARS 2006 AND 2007 -- (House of Representatives - July 19, 2005)

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Ms. McCOLLUM of Minnesota. Mr. Chairman, I stand to offer my strong support for the Hooley-Souder-Baird amendment. The meth crisis is taken very seriously in Minnesota, and I am proud of the work our local law enforcement officials are doing. They know very well how difficult this problem is, both the local production of methamphetamine and the explosion in trafficking.

While I support efforts to attack local labs and local meth production, we all know it is not enough. The meth epidemic, as I said, is poisoning and polluting Minnesota, where as much as 80 percent of the methamphetamine is produced in superlabs trafficked by Mexican narcoterrorist gangs.

The Bush administration and Congress must work with Mexico and apply real pressure to the Mexican government to attack meth production and the trafficking on their side of the border. This amendment is a good start. While States like Minnesota continue to limit and ban pseudoephedrine, these superlabs operating outside of our boarders are continuing to put the chemicals that are destroying families on our streets.

Banning pseudoephedrine will not stop the problem, but banning meth in Mexico could.

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