Tony Hall: “Mr. Speaker, I support the rule and I support the bill. The bill is not a perfect bill, but there is no perfect piece of…”

“Mr. Speaker, I support the rule and I support the bill. The bill is not a perfect bill, but there is no perfect piece of legislation that I have ever seen pass the Congress or pass the House of Representatives. But this is an important piece of legislation. It is not only an important piece of legislation for farmers, but for hungry people as well, and also for us as consumers. It affects millions and millions of people, and I think what the gentleman from Texas (Chairman Combest) and the ranking member, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm), have done, and their staffs, everybody who has worked on this, is a tremendous task. They are to be congratulated for all the different provisions that they put in there: for nutrition, for legal immigrants, for hungry people overseas, the TFAB program. So many programs that are important are incorporated in this legislation. Mr. Speaker, I hope we are able to pass this legislation. I see no reason why we cannot.”