The legislation provided $800 million in food and humanitarian relief supplies. He was asked by then Speaker Tip ONeill to lead a bipartisan Congressional delegation to assess conditions and relief requirements in Ethiopia. Mickey Lelands trip to the Sudan in the spring of 1989. made a tremendous impression on him. which made his mission against hunger a personal commitment to help the Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia. Throughout his time in the House of Representatives his commitment to end hunger and homelessness became his mission and now it is his legacy. Nelson Mandela observed that. "If you talk to a man in a language he understands. that goes to his head.
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