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Jack Kingston: First of all, I think it would be real interesting, my friend from Massachusetts, and I mentioned this to you yesterday.…

On the recordJune 14, 2011
First of all, I think it would be real interesting, my friend from Massachusetts, and I mentioned this to you yesterday. I think we would both enjoy to see what the results would be if we googled our hearing and put in the word ``hunger'' and put in the word ``obesity,'' which one showed up the most; and I believe you are going to find we talked far more about obesity than we did about hunger. The question that I have is, on the hunger, there are so many food programs out there and this bill does have a $5.6 billion increase in food stamps and $1.5 billion increase in school lunch, that maybe you and I together could focus on where this hunger is because it could be that there's maybe an ignorance issue more than a hunger issue, ignorance in that people do not know how to get these programs that are out there. Let me yield to my friend from Massachusetts. Mr. McGOVERN. Let me just say that I don't think poor people are ignorant.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia
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Jun 14, 2011

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