congressional_staffr

The DEA/Drug Czar are actually required by federal law to oppose it.

That's somewhat abnormal - while unions and such might oppose something for parochial reasons sometimes, federal agencies are usually at least theoretically neutral on underlying policy, and just "do what they're told". Not so in this field.

It's a requirement of federal law.

For a political scientist, you don't seem to know much about how things work. Which I guess shouldn't surprise me.

1 - no one thinks they're going to go all inside the beltway. Everyone does (if they want to get anything done and/or get reelected).

1a - it doesn't work like that. There are no recalls of Congress members. The "recall" vote is called the general election, and it happens every two years.

1 (again) - Try fec.gov. It's all there.

It's in 704(b)(12).

That's the section requiring the Director of ONDCP (ie the "Drug Czar") to lobby against it.

I may have been mistaken about DEA - someone else can dig that up.

Eh. Only Committee staff, most COS's, and a good chunk of LD's.