On the recordSeptember 8, 2004
I just want to use one of those programs to vivify my concern, and the concern, of course, comes because, unlike the Obey amendment, we are growing the deficit. The deficit is like a child you do not see grow, and then one day you say, oh, my, how you have grown. By that time, of course, the deficit could bring down our economy. So it is important to do what the Obey amendment would have done. What the committee has done is to barely save, and I have come to thank you for saving the so-called VERB program, a program that deals with the most serious public health problem in the United States today, obesity and overweight. All this Congress has done for this problem is the so-called cheeseburger bill, the absurdity of suing somebody because you are too fat. But we are leaving people to their own devices. The experts say that by 2005 obesity and overweight will have overtaken smoking as the leading cause of death.
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