[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1690 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1690

   To provide for the transfer of certain employees of the Internal 
    Revenue Service to the Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement 
 Administration, to establish the Department of National Drug Control 
                    Policy, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 26, 1998

 Mr. Faircloth introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
           referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for the transfer of certain employees of the Internal 
    Revenue Service to the Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement 
 Administration, to establish the Department of National Drug Control 
                    Policy, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``American Priorities Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) despite many billions of dollars being spent by the 
        Federal, State, and local governments on the war on drugs, over 
        the last 5 years there has been a serious deterioration in the 
        level of drug use, especially among young people;
            (2) one significant reason for this deterioration is a 
        serious national misapplication of Federal resources;
            (3) the Drug Enforcement Administration, which is at the 
        national forefront of the war on drugs, has only 8,449 
        personnel, 4,238 of whom are special agents;
            (4) the Internal Revenue Service employs approximately 
        100,000 persons, 46,000 of whom are enforcement officials;
            (5) recent congressional oversight has revealed that the 
        Internal Revenue Service has excess civil and criminal 
        enforcement resources, much of which is not serving the public 
        interest;
            (6) numerous other Federal departments and agencies have 
        similar excess resources; and
            (7) winning the war on drugs is a priority equal to, if not 
        more important than, that assigned to other functions of the 
        Federal Government, and accordingly requires not only a 
        reallocation of national resources, but also the establishment 
        of a Department of National Drug Control Policy, to fully 
        marshal and coordinate the available Federal resources.

SEC. 3. DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY.

    (a) Redesignation.--Effective on January 1, 1999--
            (1) there is established in the executive branch of the 
        Federal Government a Department of National Drug Control 
        Policy, at the head of which shall be a Secretary of National 
        Drug Control Policy; and
            (2) the Office of National Drug Control Policy established 
        under section 1002 of the National Narcotics Leadership Act of 
        1988 (21 U.S.C. 1501) is abolished; and
            (3) there are transferred to the Department of National 
        Drug Control Policy established under paragraph (1) all 
        functions that the Director of the Office of National Drug 
        Control Policy exercised on December 31, 1998 (including all 
        related functions of any officer or employee of the Office of 
        National Drug Control Policy).
    (b) References.--Effective on January 1, 1999, any reference in any 
Federal law, Executive order, rule, regulation, or delegation of 
authority, or any document of or pertaining--
            (1) to the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall be 
        deemed to refer to the Department of National Drug Control 
        Policy;
            (2) to the Director of the Office of National Drug Control 
        Policy shall be deemed to refer to the Secretary of National 
        Drug Control Policy;
            (3) to the Deputy Director of National Drug Control Policy 
        shall be deemed to refer to the Deputy Secretary of National 
        Drug Control Policy; or
            (4) to any Assistant Administrator of the Office of 
        National Drug Control Policy shall be deemed to refer to an 
        Assistant Secretary of National Drug Control Policy.
    (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall submit to Congress a report describing--
            (1) a detailed legislative proposal for technical and 
        conforming amendments necessary to carry out this section; and
            (2) the resources and potential resources of the Federal 
        Government available to the Department of National Drug Control 
        Policy established under subsection (a) from other departments 
        and agencies of the Federal government, with an emphasis on any 
        resources available from the Internal Revenue Service.

SEC. 4. TRANSFER OF IRS EMPLOYEES TO DEA.

    Not later than January 1, 1999, the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget, in consultation with the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy and the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, 
shall transfer not more than 33\1/3\ percent of all employees of the 
Internal Revenue Service who are engaged in enforcement activities to 
the Drug Enforcement Agency of the Department of Justice to assist in 
carrying out the enforcement activities of the Drug Enforcement Agency.
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