On the recordJuly 23, 1997
I could not disagree more. Every earmark the Senator from Arizona mentioned tonight, listed tonight in the bill, he was absolutely correct about it. Every one of them were for research projects. I said in my opening statement this morning that it is a tragedy that in this country we have become complacent about our food supplies, and, yet, we are adding 2 million people a year in this Nation alone to feed, and almost 100 million people a year worldwide to feed. And at the same time in this Nation, as we add 2 million people to feed, we are also taking between 2 million and 3 million acres of arable land out of cultivation for airports, urban sprawl, housing, you name it.
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