Session #96 · 1979–81

Speech #960280119

Senator BOREN was kind enough to call me this morning and tell me he was going to offer this amendment. I have no quarrel at all with what he is attempting to do. but I do think this is clearly the wrong forum in which to offer this bill. Doubtless there does need to be some administrative changes in the migrant labor program. and I know the Senator from Oklahoma has given a great deal of thought to that problem. But. after all. we are debating a child nutrition bill here today. This is the Nations school lunch program. the school breakfast program. the special supplemental feeding program for women. infants. and children. What relationship that has to the migrant labor program escapes me. The Committee on Agriculture has no jurisdiction at all over the migrant labor program. As the Senator from Wisconsin has said. he has not been attempting to delay hearings before his committee. which does have jurisdiction over this program. and has the professional staff and the Senators who are familiar with the program. So without getting into any argument here today about the merits or the demerits of this program on substantive grounds. I hope that the appeal the Senator from Wisconsin has made will be heard by Senators. that he has moved ahead to schedule hearings and has provided the proper forum for it. His committee clearly is the committee with jurisdiction. We have got enough complicated provisions in this child nutrition bill without adding to it the complexities of the migrant labor program. I think we would also run into difficulties with the other body. The House of Representatives has already completed action on the child nutrition bill.
Keywords matched
migrant

Classification

Target group
None Specific
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
60%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
GEORGE MCGOVERN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
SD
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
960280119
Paragraph
#0
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