[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 149 (Tuesday, September 24, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H5660]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             END HUNGER NOW

  (Mr. McGOVERN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, antihunger advocates across the country 
have been sounding the alarm that hunger is increasing at a disturbing 
rate. In my district, I am seeing longer lines at food banks, empty 
shelves at pantries, and people skipping meals because they can't 
afford food.
  A new report from the Economic Research Service at the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture confirms that about 3 million more people 
live in households struggling with food insecurity in 2023 than in 
2022. In total, 18 million households, 47 million people, are 
struggling to feed themselves and their families. It is shameful.
  During the COVID-19 pandemic, more investments in our antihunger and 
antipoverty safety net helped feed people, and we saw hunger decrease.
  Sadly, Republicans blocked extensions of these programs, and now, we 
have seen hunger increase.
  We have the roadmap. We know what to do. What we need is the 
political will to follow it.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in demanding a 
bipartisan farm bill that improves our Federal nutrition programs, a 
tax bill that reinstates the expanded EITC and child tax credit, and 
legislation to implement the Biden-Harris administration's National 
Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
  Together, we can end hunger now.

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