Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlelady from New York. Mr. Speaker, I have to voice my opposition to an insidious provision that has been added to this bill at the last minute by agribusiness and the frozen food industry, and that is a change that allows pizza to be counted as a vegetable. They started with French fries; now they've moved on to pizza. This language equates pizza with vegetables and weakens otherwise good school nutrition standards. This false equivalency harkens back to the ludicrous labeling of ketchup as a vegetable made infamous 30 years ago by President Ronald Reagan. Again, this bill's actual language requires crediting of tomato paste--again, crediting of tomato paste from page 90 of this bill--as a vegetable under the school lunch program to be subsidized by taxpayers as a vegetable. {time} 1250 I had a family from my district, from Eagle County, Colorado, in my office earlier this morning and I asked the mom, I said, When your kid is eating, do you count pizza as his vegetable? And she said, No. And parents across the Nation agree. Pizza can be incorporated into a healthy diet. I eat pizza. Most of my constituents eat pizza.…”