We shared a special status in this Congress. both chairing select committees that are specifically designed to raise issues that may be a little tougher than the Congress can address. to discuss solutions that may exceed current political "acceptability." to educate not only the public but our colleagues in the House as well. MICKEY served as a member of my Select Committee on Children. Youth and Families. and he liked the forum so well he went off and got the Select Committee on Hunger created. and he wrote a brilliant record as chairman of that Important panel. taking Members to see the human desperation not only in Ethiopia and Central America. but in Appalachia. in the migrant camps of the American South. and on the Native American reservations of the West. Some believe Members of Congress conduct these investigations and visits for publicity. But as a recent Washington Post story noted.