Lindsey Graham on Drugs Republican Sr Senator; previously Representative (SC-3)

Voted YES on military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism.

Voted YES on prohibiting needle exchange & medical marijuana in DC.

Voted YES on subjecting federal employees to random drug tests.

Enhance interdiction by criminalizing unflagged submarines.

Legislative Summary:A bill to enhance drug trafficking interdiction by creating a Federal felony for operating or embarking in a submersible or semi-submersible vessel without nationality and on an international voyage.

Cogressional Findings:
• Congress finds that operating or embarking in a submersible or semi-submersible vessel without nationality and on an international voyage is a serious international problem, facilitates transnational crime, including drug trafficking, and terrorism, and presents a specific threat to the safety of maritime navigation and the security of the United States.
• Whoever knowingly operates in any submersible vessel that is without nationality and that is navigating waters beyond the outer limit of the territorial sea of a single country, with the intent to evade detection, shall be punished as prescribed
• House version is H.R.6295; related Senate bill S.3198.