Dick Lugar: “The President made it crystal clear that he is completely committed to the full funding of this modernization program.”

as we all now know, the Senate will vote today on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The United States has long been a leader in its treatment of those with disabilities. Becoming a party to the convention would…

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Shaheen). The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa.

It seems to me to be really a safety net there.

It is not the lack of food in the country but the problems of poverty and distribution and income.