On the recordJuly 19, 2001
There are many parts of this bill. The part I would like to concentrate on is something which the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Hall) and I have been working on for a long time. The basis is this: there are 31 million Americans, according to a Department of Agriculture report, who go to bed hungry every night; and 12 million of those are children. One of the things this bill does is to encourage and gives a tax incentive to restaurants and hotels and people like that who have excess food, throw it away, to give it to these organizations, to help these people that are hungry. That is all it is. It is a very simple part of this bill. I think it is needed, and I think it is the right area.
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