Of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by majorities and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocate between the parties and no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. Each member other other than the majority and majorities and leaders for morning minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from louisiana, mr. Abraham, for five minutes. Mr. Abraham thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to share with you an inspiring story about a Community Rallying to honor one of our nations heroes. On september 12, this year, Thomas Edward hunter passed away at the wonderful age of 93. He was the world war ii veteran who served in normandy and fought with our troops to liberate europe from the nazis. Unfortunately, mr
For Peace Program is the focus on the Senate Foreign relations hearing. We will hear from the director, Catholic Relief Services an official from the Government Accountability office. This runs about an hour and a half. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We are currently facing a humanitarian crisis with over 800 Million People worldwide in need of food aid. The us continues to be the world leader providing more than a third of all food aid. Over 2 billion annually. Sadly despite our generosity there are shortfalls for whats needed due to other donor nations not meeting the challenge and in next years farm bill deliberations women opportunity to do more without having to spend more money. A little over half of our food aid is provided through the farm bill with our food for Peace Program. The farm bill requires aid to be sourced almost entirely from us farmers after which must be shipped on us vessels according to cargo preference rules. Of these restrictions resulting spe
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To 162 more per metric ton than foreign flag carriers for usda programs. If u. S. Flag carriers had matched the average foreign flag rate in each these years, we would have spent 23. 8 mmm less for shipping. And we did a little back of the envelope map and we think that comes out to about 500,000 in foodd theyd we could have helped. Extra money spent on shipping is money not spent feeding hungry people. Im not qualified to judge whether the cargo preference requirement achieves the necessary National Security objective of maintaining sea lift with the goal tied to that capacity. However, we at cathly Relief Services deeply appreciate the service and sacrifice of mariners who have helped deliver food aid for the last 60 years. We welcome their contribution that did do not diminish the programs ability. Surely there are other ways of supporting the mariners and maintaining our nations sea lift capacity without penal lizing vulnerable and hungry people. Short of eliminating the cargo pref