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Keeping Communities Safe from Meth
Congressman Baird is a national leader in the anti-meth fight.  He founded the bipartisan Congressional Caucus to Fight and Control Methamphetamine in 2000, and he helped write the comprehensive Combat Meth Epidemic Act of 2005.

Congressman Baird believes that if we are going to defeat the scourge of methamphetamine, we have to fight local clandestine labs and the influx of foreign meth coming across our borders and into our local communities.

The Congressman understands the changing nature of the meth epidemic and is taking the anti-meth fight international.  He recently passed legislation to convene an international meth summit where law enforcement and health leaders from around the world will come together and craft a coordinated strategy to solve the international meth trafficking problem.  Read more on the international meth summit.

While meth production and abuse continues to expand, federal funding to help state and local governments has steadily decreased since 2002.  In 2006, the President's budget proposed an 80% cut to federal support to local law enforcement and drug prevention programs.  Local law enforcement relies on this funding to help train and put new officers on the street, target clan labs, improve the prosecution of meth-related crimes, and crack down on meth trafficking. 

Fortunately, Congressman Baird successfully fought to restore federal meth funding that was cut in the FY06 budget and he is leading the effort to restore needed funding again this year.   

See Congressman Baird discuss the meth epidemic on PBS' FRONTLINE.