14.674?: R29 3/973/no. 2 REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 2 OF 1973 93-1 94-735 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION APRIL 4 AND MAY 3, 1973 Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Operations AUG 1973 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS JACK BROOKS, Texas CHET HOLIFIELD, California, Chairman L. H. FOUNTAIN, North Carolina ROBERT E. JONES, Alabama JOHN E. MOSS, California TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL, New York FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN, Rhode Island FLOYD V. HICKS, Washington JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan BILL ALEXANDER, Arkansas HAROLD D. DONOHUE, Massachusetts FRANK HORTON, New York PAUL N. MCCLOSKEY, JR., California HERBERT ROBACK, Staff Director WILLIAM H. COPENHAVER, Minority Professional Staff LEGISLATION AND MILITARY OPERATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL, New York FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN, Rhode Island WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD, Pennsylvania FRANK HORTON, New York JOHN N. ERLENBORN, Illinois JOHN W. WYDLER, New York CLARENCE J. BROWN, Ohio RICHARD W. MALLARY, Vermont HERBERT ROBACK, Staff Director CATHERINE KOEBERLEIN, Research Analyst SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE STAFF WARREN BUHLER, Minority Staff Member 119, 166 Acree, Vernon D., Commissioner of Customs, Department of the Ambrose, Myles J., Special Assistant Attorney General, and Special Sonnenreich, Michael, Executive Director, National Commission on Webber, Clyde M., national president, American Federation of Gov- ernment Employees, accompanied by Louis M. Pellerzi, general counsel; Carl K. Sadler, legislative representative; Francis P. Ve- tere, president, New York Council of Customs Locals; Lee G. Cremer, president, National Council of Immigration and Naturali- zation Locals; Michael G. Harpold, president, Local 1616, INS, San Francisco; Stephen A. Koczak, director of research; and B. N. Hem- stad, immigration inspector, New Orleans, La_ Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by- Acree, Vernon D., Commissioner of Customs, Department of the 161 45 2 155 Ambrose, Myles J., Special Assistant Attorney General, and Special Consultant to the President for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement: Inspection of schedule 2 manufacturers, distributors, importers, Letter, dated April 17, 1973, from Dennis Garrison, executive vice president, American Federation of Government Employees, re effects of Reorganization Plan No. 2 on problems of certain Letter, dated April 27, 1973, to Clyde M. Webber, national presi- dent, American Federation of Government Employees, re Re- Letter, dated April 27, 1973, to Dennis Garrison, executive vice president, American Federation of Government Employees, re- APPENDIXES Page Dingell, Hon. John D., a Representative in Congress from the State of Michigan_ Harpold, Michael G., president, Local 1616, INS, San Francisco, Calif., statement Holifield, Hon. Chet, a Representative in Congress from the State of Letter, dated April 4, 1973, to Chairman Rodino, requesting com- 178 143 24 33, 65, 67, 69, 72, 73, 99, 104, 125, 128, 130, 157, 167 Ink, Dwight, Assistant Director, Office of Management and Budget, statement Rosen, Leon, national president, Immigration and Nationality Law- Vetere, Francis P., president, New York Council of Customs Locals: Webber, Clyde M., national president, American Federation of Govern- Appendix 2.-Statements for the record by Members of Congress__. Appendix 3.-Selected correspondence received by Chairman Holifield and Appendix 4.-Information supplied for the record on various topics_-_ Letter from Paul R. Ignatius, president, Air Transport Association Appendix 4.-Information supplied for the record on various topics--- 45 168 89 176 87 183 195 195 196 197 197 198 224 204 205 224 224 227 REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 2 OF 1973 (Drug Enforcement Administration) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1973 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, LEGISLATION AND MILITARY OPERATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in room 2203, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Chet Holifield (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Chet Holifield, Benjamin S. Rosenthal, Frank Horton, John W. Wydler, Clarence J. Brown, and Richard W. Mallary. Also present: Elmer Henderson, general counsel; Douglas Dahlin, counsel for military operations; Paul Ridgely, investigator; and Warren Buhler, minority staff member, Committee on Government Operations. Chairman HOLIFIELD. The committee will be in order. These hearings have been called by the Subcommittee on Legislation and Military Operations of the House Committee on Government Operations to consider Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973, submitted to Congress by the President on March 28, 1973. The plan will consolidate certain drug law enforcement activities in the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Customs of the Treasury Department. Under the Reorganization Act of 1949, the Congress has 60 days, not counting periods of adjournment over 3 days, to disapprove the plan. Thus far, no disapproval resolution has been filed. The plan is intended to bring together the activities of related agencies and to develop a more appropriate division of labor between the Department of Justice and the Treasury Department in the enforcement of our drug laws. The President indicated in his message that, although some progress had been made in the suppression of the drug traffic, the present scattering of Federal programs has complicated our efforts in this important field. The plan will create a Drug Enforcement Administration within the Department of Justice which will absorb the functions of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the Office for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement, and the Office of National Narcotics Intelligence, all presently in the Department of Justice. The new administration would also receive functions transferred from the narcotics unit of the Bureau of Customs and, thus, will be charged with all domestic and foreign law enforcement operations (1) |