Eva M. Clayton: “I want to use this time as we consider the supplemental to raise an issue that I think has tremendous emergency…”

“I want to use this time as we consider the supplemental to raise an issue that I think has tremendous emergency potential, but it has great implications for us as a Nation as we respond internationally and as we are trying to bring stability in regions of the country that we want to have stable commerce with. And that is to recognize that in southern parts of Africa there are countries where people are literally starving today and that we could intervene and make a difference. A little money could be provided for food, and those who are starving need not die from starvation and the starvation numbers need not increase. Just yesterday, the World Food Program revised their numbers up that they expect will be affected if we did nothing, from 13 million to 14 million. It is so easy for us in our luxury, or in our secure areas not to see this as immediate, because it is over there. Well, their problems over there become our problems in terms of security.”