Madam President. first. let me compliment my colleague from Florida. I recall one day leaving the island of Haiti with our late colleague. Congressman Mickey Leland. from Texas. who tragically was later killed on a hunger relief mission in Ethiopia. We had toured refugee camps in Haiti in our work together on the Task Force on Hunger in the House of Representatives. I asked myself on the plane on the way out of Haiti that day: How would I fix this problem? The most gripping. wrenching poverty I have ever witnessed in my life exists in our neighborhood. in that country.