Timothy Roemer: “it has been said before that when you have facts on your side, you pound on the facts. When you have the law on your…”

“it has been said before that when you have facts on your side, you pound on the facts. When you have the law on your side, you pound on the law. When you have neither, you pound on the podium. We have heard a lot of Republicans pounding on the podium for the last 2 weeks saying, we are not cutting school lunches. We are increasing it. Yesterday in the New York Times the headline read: ``School Lunch Bill Leaves Out Military Children.'' Fifty-seven thousand children eligible for school lunches left out. When the gentleman from California, [Mr. Cunningham] was asked, is this true? How could this be? A Republican on the committee said, ``Are there little glitches like this? Absolutely.'' Little glitches leaving out thousands of school children? We do not want to put the Pentagon in charge of serving school lunches, Mr. Speaker. Let us make sure that we do not have glitches and omissions that will put our children on the streets and take food out of their mouths.”