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Sam Brownback: “I think the number of people who have spoken on the floor about the issue of food and that it should never, ever be used…”

On the recordJuly 9, 1998
I think the number of people who have spoken on the floor about the issue of food and that it should never, ever be used as a political weapon or tool in foreign policy, speaks clearly with the mind of the Senate that it doesn't work. Food being used as a political tool or as a tool of foreign policy should never, ever occur. Hopefully, as we move forward on some reforms, that will be a point of agreement, something with which everybody agrees: Food is never, ever to be used. It only hurts the people and hurts our farmers in the United States. So I congratulate my colleagues.
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Sam Brownback
Republican · Kansas
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Discussing the use of food as a political tool in foreign policy.

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