House Proceeding on Mar 6th, 2009 :: 0:06:30 to 0:07:35
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James P. McGovern: increased threat to our national security. let's take this dangerous anti-jobs and anti-consumer provision out of the budget bill today. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the spe without objection, so ordered. mr. mcgovern: thank you, madam speaker.

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Speech By: James P. McGovern

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James P. McGovern: madam speaker, there are over 90 planet who are hungry. over 300 million of them are children. of those children about half do not go to school. what we have learned over the years is that if we introduce a meal in a school setting more kids will go to school and more girls will go to school. we have learned that in some of

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James P. McGovern: the most volatile parts of the world, parents send their kids to school that preach religious intolerance not because they want to have their kids learn that but because they want their kids to eat and those schools offer a meal. today, madam speaker, i and others -- and a number of others are sending a letter to secretary vilsack asng this administration to fully fund

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James P. McGovern: the george mcgovern-bob dole international feeding program.