[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 15 (Tuesday, January 24, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H268]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  ON BEHALF OF FOOD INSECURE CHILDREN

  (Ms. STEVENS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. STEVENS. Mr. Speaker, I rise on behalf of every American child 
who is going to bed tonight hungry. I rise on behalf of the food 
insecure child and the meal insecure child. Pandemic-era lunch programs 
have expired, and that number is now 10 million. That is more than the 
entire populations of New York City, Washington, D.C., and Detroit 
combined.
  I was meeting with the school administrators of Farmington Hills, and 
they were telling me 40 percent of our children are food insecure. This 
is impacting Oakland County, Michigan.
  We have a bill to address this, as we did last term in the Congress, 
the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act. Let's get this passed. Let's work 
together.
  My colleagues are talking about school choice. Let's make sure that 
when students go to school, they have lunch guaranteed.

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