[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 10 (Thursday, January 18, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H232]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     FEEDING THE CHILDREN OF TEXAS

  (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, I rise to thank President Joseph Biden 
and Vice President Kamala Harris for working with those of us who have 
a deep abiding concern for our children.
  I chair the Congressional Children's Caucus, and I was delighted that 
we were able to provide for the summer feeding youth program that will 
provide breakfast, lunch, and dinner for our children in the summer 
when they are not on a program that is held during the school year.
  This is a vital program. It is a program that simply has the 
opportunity for our State to match and the Federal Government then 
matches and provides hungry children a lifeline.
  Mr. Speaker, I am asking publicly for the State of Texas to accept 
the summer feeding program and to be one of the 35 States that have 
already accepted this program to participate in, so that the 3 million 
children in the State of Texas, and the nearly 100,000 in my 
congressional district, and possibly 1 million in the region that I 
represent would have the ability to eat.
  Don't you want our children of Texas to eat? Let us participate in 
the summer feeding program. Let's do it now.

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