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Free Lunch to Every Child

Floor Speech

By: Ro Khanna
By: Ro Khanna
Date: March 21, 2024
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. KHANNA. Mr. Speaker, Art Ellison has one final wish: to provide free lunch to students in need.

Art, a Democrat from the New Hampshire State House, is currently in hospice and knows he doesn't have long to live. He is using his final time to try and pass a bill to increase eligibility for free lunch to all students at or below 350 percent of the Federal poverty line.

Making kids go hungry is cruel. That is why I am on a bill with Senator Sanders to provide free lunch and free meals to every child. We can do it for $3.30 a day.

Let us honor Art Ellison and get this done. He represents the best of politics.

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