Eva M. Clayton: “I want to join in support of this and say this is an opportunity to see how we can use tobacco for something other than…”

We are simply trying to raise their sensitivity with this. I just think people of good conscience cannot look at the epidemic and turn away. If you do, it says just volumes about where you are not, not where you are.

I can say unequivocally, though, that every member of the Congressional Black Caucus has made this a centerpiece, a priority, in this Congress as well as Congresses before and Congresses to come, because this is a very critical issue. And…

I want to raise first the issue of rural development... Unless we speak to those issues that allow for rural areas to make up for that differential, this welfare bill is not adequate. Let me speak about another issue on which I have been…

I am very appreciative of what the gentleman has done. I am only saying as a rural-urban allocation, those of us who live in rural communities do not benefit from the program in the same way. I urge the gentleman to work with us during the…