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Red Tape Hindering Aid to Evacuees

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 21, 2005
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Agriculture and Food

RED TAPE HINDERING AID TO EVACUEES -- (House of Representatives - September 21, 2005)

(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 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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