Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentleman from Minnesota allowing me some time. I come down here in an effort to try and talk, perhaps somewhere balancing this particular act. There is nothing wrong with child nutrition. There is nothing wrong with trying to provide that kids have the opportunity to be well fed so that they can function in school. There is nothing wrong with the goals or the desires of those who are sponsoring this legislation. Admittedly, there is something wrong with allowing the Senate to write everything and ignoring what the House did and bringing this here on a closed rule, but that's a process issue. What I wish to do here today though, more than anything else, is to plead the 10th Amendment. There are great and noble goals within this particular bill, but this body is not the only place in which great and noble goals can be accomplished. When we, in this bill, give the Secretary of Agriculture the unlimited control and authority to determine what is food and what is not, what kids will eat and what they will not, by nature of that action we take away that responsibility from local school boards, from parents, from local administrators who actually do care about those kids to a greater degree than even our compassionate concern on this particular level. When we, in this bill, now mandate an exercise program in order to get funds for school lunches--once again, there's nothing wrong with making kids go outside and exercise. It's noble, but this is not a school board.…”