government, we're putting a lot of money and we're working in great partnership with the office of national drug control policy, the u.s. department of education, the u.s. department of justice and of course, samhsa, to bring dollars to the local level so people can come together. if there isn't a coalition, parents could consider bringing people together themselves and going online to the samhsa web site and be able to learn how to bring a coalition together, who should be there at the table, how do i get expertise, and it's very accessible. we have a facebook page now. everything is becoming far easier to approach and to get our messages out. have the power of a coalition of every single person in a community that touches a child come together and talk about what needs to be done and then learn the tools of bringing in, to do an assessment as we do in treatment, we do in the community, we can then begin the process and start. our new health reform legislation is going to help us because we are bringing in the attention and the dollars to support the funding for prevention, for treatment, and for recovery ser

we have seen this work so well in the office of national drug control policy with anti-drug ads. and whether it the grantees are using this to lobby for more regulation and taxes which don't usually solve that problem. looking at oversight. oversight is not used as a political weapon. we understand the most important function of this committee. taxpayers deserve to know if you send your mission statement how money is being spent. the program is not being effective. taxpayers want to know why. to reform or terminate expenditure of their money. since it is being expanded they want to know why it is being affected. the ten most effective and least effective programs. the answer is the programs on which congress spent the most money and in which they spend the least money. that is never the right answer. we hope every member is more educated and spend more time determining which programs are more effective. thank you for allowing me to testify today. >> i am vice-president of governor affairs for the national taxpayers union. to work for lower taxes and smaller government at all leve