Statement of Diana E. Murphy before the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control
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Sentencing Commission (the " Commission "). I appreciate the opportunity to testify today about proposed changes to the federal sentencing guidelines for ecstasy trafficking in response to recently enacted legislation which was cosponsored by several members of the Caucus. As you know, the Ecstasy Anti-Proliferation Act (" the Act ") was enacted on October 17, 2000, and directs the Commission to amend the federal sentencing guidelines to provide for increased penalties for ecstasy trafficking in order to reflect the seriousness of these offenses and the need to deter them. The Act also requires the Commission to consider a number of other factors, such as the need for aggressive law enforcement, the dangers associated with the drug, the rapid growing incidence of ecstasy abuse, and the youth of the users. At the outset, let me state that the Commission wholeheartedly shares Congress's concern about the serious threat posed by the illegal importation, trafficking, and use of ecstasy and is equally disturbed by the increasing availability of the drug and increasing abuse, especially by our youth. For this reason, in exercising its emergency amendment authority granted by Congress in the Act, the Commission has made responding to the directives contained in the Ecstasy Anti-Proliferation Act a highest priority for the agency. To complete our work as quickly as possible, we shifted resources from other important policy development areas, such as implementing other congressional directives regarding stalking and sexual offenses against children, and completing
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