Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume here to address this issue of a floor on school lunch prices that can be imposed. I have got a couple of quotes here I would like to read. One is from the bill and one is from the letter from the Governors Association where there's a paragraph that says, ``Federally mandated paid meal price. The bill would establish a Federal mandate for every paid meal in every school in the country for the first time ever. Governors join with the school community to strongly oppose this Federal mandate. The provision will dramatically destabilize fair market pricing of school meals'' and so forth. And they get that from the language of the bill itself. In section 205, it says: ``Lower price, in general, in the case of a school food authority that established a price for a paid lunch in the previous school year that was less than the difference between the total Federal reimbursement for a free lunch and the total Federal reimbursement for a paid lunch, the school food authority shall establish an average price for a paid lunch that is not less than the price charged in the previous school year.'' So the Federal Government is coming in and saying, you can't charge any less; you cannot lower the price of your paid school lunch unless its meets our requirements. It is, in fact, saying that you can't lower the price of food even if you would like to do so. It doesn't meet this requirement. I reserve the balance of my time.”