CONTINUING EFFORT

As a career law enforcement officer, who has served as a past president of
the California Narcotic Officers' Association and current chairman of the
National Narcotics Officers' Associations Coalition, I applaud your
well-researched and timely report regarding methamphetamine and the
devastation it is causing.

I am, however, shocked at your question: "Where are the champions in
Washington." Since 1995, Sen. Dianne Feinstein has been this state's
champion on a variety of drug issues, primarily policies relating to
methamphetamine. Sen. Feinstein has made the methamphetamine problem her
legislative priority. She convened the Western States Methamphetamine
Conference in San Francisco, and worked to designate the Central Valley as
a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. She authored the Precursor Control
Act, and has been one of the forces responsible for an $18.2 million grant
to funds the California Methamphetamine Strategy, used by state Attorney
General Bill Lockyer's Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement to augment his
already robust enforcement.

We have also worked closely this year with Reps. Gary Condit and Doug Ose,
who have led a bipartisan effort to continue the $18.2 million allocation
to the California Meth Strategy for fiscal year 2001. This will assure that
our efforts remain vigorous and continuous. Reps. Ose and Condit have been
assisted by Reps. James Rogan, Cal Dooley, Robert Matsui, Richard Pombo,
George Radanovich, Walley Herger and William Thomas.

Ronald E. Brooks, Santa Clarita