[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[House]
[Pages 20805-20806]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   RED TAPE HINDERING AID TO EVACUEES

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Madam Speaker, it is amazing to me that American troops 
can get sick off Halliburton food, yet Halliburton continues to get 
contract after contract after contract after contract. But when tons of 
British food rations are provided to the Hurricane Katrina survivors, 
all they get is red tape from the FDA and the Bush administration. For 
crying out loud.
  If the report is to be believed, tons of British aid donated to help 
Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned by the Americans because 
U.S. red tape is stopping it from reaching the hungry evacuees. But 
these are the same food rations that are eaten by the British

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troops in Iraq, and the USDA has condemned them as unfit for human 
consumption while Halliburton continues to serve unfit rations to our 
troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
  It is a crying shame. When will the incompetence end?

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