George Miller: “I was just going to point out that, as I understand it, the debate that has gone on here, we are trying to stop the sins…”

“I was just going to point out that, as I understand it, the debate that has gone on here, we are trying to stop the sins of the past. There is no question we asked for a huge amount of information from school districts today, school lunch programs and others. We are also working overtime with school districts to try to reduce that paperwork, to reduce those costs so we can take that money and put it into lunches or services or teaching. We cannot just say, because we are already doing that, we can just add a little bit more. I think that is the purpose of the debate that is going on here. From this reauthorization, which has been 5 years since we have done it, if Members do not want unfunded mandates, then they have to come up with ways to provide that funding. We cannot just say this is additive. We are asking the questions anyway. This is an entirely different set of questions about citizenship than about whether the school lunch applies to a person or not. I just say, let us cure the sin here, if that is what we are serious about doing.”