[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 119 (Wednesday, September 21, 2005)]
[House]
[Pages H8168-H8169]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   RED TAPE HINDERING AID TO EVACUEES

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Madam Speaker, it is amazing to me that American troops 
can get sick off Halliburton food, yet

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Halliburton continues to get contract after contract after contract 
after contract. But when tons of British food rations are provided to 
the Hurricane Katrina survivors, all they get is red tape from the FDA 
and the Bush administration. For crying out loud.
  If the report is to be believed, tons of British aid donated to help 
Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned by the Americans because 
U.S. red tape is stopping it from reaching the hungry evacuees. But 
these are the same food rations that are eaten by the British troops in 
Iraq, and the USDA has condemned them as unfit for human consumption 
while Halliburton continues to serve unfit rations to our troops in 
Afghanistan and Iraq.
  It is a crying shame. When will the incompetence end?

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