During the first 2 days of hearings in 1971February 23 and 24the committee heard testimony which brought home the fact that hunger and malnutrition still exist and persist in America. The committee has made a substantial contribution to the expansion and improvement of the school lunch program and the food stamp program. But it is all too clear from the recent testimony on health conditions in migrant camps in Colorado that these improved programs still are not reaching the chronically poor and malnourished. I believe that another year of investigation and hearings in these vital areas of the national interest may make it possible for us to put an end to hunger in America. to put an end to this terrible waste of human resources. to put an end to this useless suffering. Accordingly.