[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 93 (Wednesday, May 31, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2671]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             END HUNGER NOW

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, first, I join with my colleague,  Jim 
McGovern, on our constant fight for ending hunger. I thank my 
colleague, the Honorable Mickey Leland, along with the late Congressman 
Emerson for beginning the Congressional Hunger Center and starting the 
Select Committee on Hunger in this Congress.
  As I transition to why I stand here today, one would wonder why this 
is so relevant. In about 24 hours, the State of Texas will take over a 
majority-minority school district that has been fighting to overcome 
the pandemic effect, but there are children who do not eat unless they 
have the programs that our public school system has been able to 
provide for them. They are hungry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Flood). The time of the gentlewoman has 
expired.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. If the title I funding and other funding is gone, 
they are hungry.
  The Houston Independent School District should not be taken over 
because I wonder about the children who will go hungry under the new 
administration.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman is no longer recognized.

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