Eliot Engel actually said...

This plan has garnered bipartisan support on Capitol Hill and from groups as disparate at the Heritage Foundation and Oxfam.

Sometimes it seems that we lose sight of why we have a food aid program in the first place. It isn't to subsidize growers, shippers, or NGOs...

I commend the President, I commend the administration for its food aid reform proposal.

We can save hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars by purchasing food aid closer to the destination countries.