Eva M. Clayton: “I have records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and you will suffer 279 less young people being fed under your…”

the gentleman and I both know it takes a long time and is very expensive for people to become legal citizens, and tying food and hunger to citizenship is very difficult.

Mr. Speaker, we have a crisis in public confidence in our airline industry. Before September 11, fuel prices were rising, business travel was declining, and some of our airlines in my State had serious financial problems. After September…

over the last 9 years I have come to this floor to talk about the plight of rural America. I have talked about farmers, including small farmers, disadvantaged farmers and minority farmers. Today, I rise again to talk about the plight of…

like all Americans, I am concerned about the state of affairs in the world today, and how the United States government responds to the changing nature of threats to our national security--especially as we near the one-year anniversary of…