[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 64 (Thursday, May 1, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H3395-H3396]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   GLOBAL HUNGER/LIVE BELOW THE LINE

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, it is the lunch hour here in Washington, 
D.C., but for the over 840 million people around the world who are 
struggling with hunger, an adequate lunch is a luxury they cannot 
afford. Instead of enjoying food, they are facing a terrible, gnawing 
pain in their gut right now. By the time I finish this statement, six 
children will have perished because of hunger or inadequate nutrition.
  This week, the World Food Program is asking everyone to try to Live 
Below the Line--to put yourself in the shoes of the hungry, and to try 
to get by on

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only $1.50 of food per day--the purchasing power of people living in 
extreme poverty, as defined by the World Bank. I and members of my 
staff are taking this challenge. But for millions of people, this is 
not about 1 day or 1 week. This is about their everyday lives.
  It should not be this way. As President Kennedy said over 50 years 
ago:

       We have the ability, we have the means, and we have the 
     capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the Earth. We 
     need only the will.

  In the past, Republicans like Bob Dole and Democrats like George 
McGovern came together. They led this battle against global hunger. 
Today, we have a moral obligation to continue that battle, to meet our 
responsibilities to our fellow man and woman--and to our children--and 
to do what we can to end the scourge of hunger in our own Nation and 
around the world.
  Mr. Speaker, let's take advantage of this challenge. Let us end 
hunger in this generation.

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