Honorable Dan Burton
United States Representative, Indiana, Republican
Representative Burton, of the Fifth District of Indiana, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982. He serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The following is excerpted from Representative Burton’s statement during a June 19, 2009, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere hearing on U.S. efforts to combat arms trafficking to Mexico. Mexico, Central America, and the United States have a joint responsibility to resolve this common and difficult challenge of illegal arms trafficking. Though it is easy to point to the United States as the source of the problem, I believe we must…
