As ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Hunger. I had the unparalleled opportunity to view this crisis firsthand with a group of my House colleagues during a recent trip to Ethiopia. Words cannot describe the anguish I felt at the Korem and Makelle refugee camps. My sense of helplessness was overwhelming. Today. the knowledge of the existence of such misery reminds us of the words of John Donne. "No man is an island." Indeed. we can be assured that the United States has proven to be "our brothers keeper." The administrations response to this disaster has been commendable.