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Barney Frank: “I do not want her to suggest that our friends on the other side are indifferent to the fate of these children at the…”

On the recordMarch 8, 1995
I do not want her to suggest that our friends on the other side are indifferent to the fate of these children at the Federal level. Is it not true that if everything they want goes through, while the school lunch program would be in the hands of the State and they would decide without competitive bidding who would be the suppliers, if a child in fact were to have an untoward incident in what he or she ate, they would sue under Federal law so it would be a State administered law but it would be a Federal lawsuit?
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of state control over the school lunch program during a debate.

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