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Patrick Leahy: “The needs described so well by my colleagues are pervasive, urgent, and fully within our means to address. Hunger has a…”

On the recordMarch 22, 2000
The needs described so well by my colleagues are pervasive, urgent, and fully within our means to address. Hunger has a cure. As ranking member of the Agriculture Subcommittee on Research, Nutrition, and General Legislation, I will do all I can to pass the Hunger Relief Act this year. I respectfully and insistently ask the Budget Committee to cooperate in creating a $2.5 billion reserve for this purpose.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Addressing hunger and advocating for the Hunger Relief Act during a Senate floor speech.

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