Cut Off Drug Money, Says Congresswoman.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Date: 01 November 2001
• Author: Byron, Norma

For the United States to succeed in its efforts to combat terrorism, it also must defeat the international drug trade, U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-Va., told an October luncheon sponsored by Women In Defense.

Davis made her comments to a riveted audience--many of whom were attending their first WID event--in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.

A first-term member of the House Armed Services Committee, the International Relations Committee and the Speaker's Special Drug Task Force, Davis provided an in-depth...