Nov. 20 - Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) today introduced legislation that seeks to combat the growing incidence of hunger in America. The bill, S.2805, would authorize doubling the funding for The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) from $250 to $500 million and would significantly increase the amount of food available at local food banks which are often the nation’s first line of defense against hunger. “It is hard to find a sufficiently tough word to describe it - scandalous, outrageous, criminal, repugnant - that in this land of plenty, we should find Americans who are hungry,” Senator Specter said in a statement on the Senate floor. “It is unacceptable to have people hungry anywhere in the world, but right here in our own backyard, for this situation to exist, is beyond the pale....
Nov. 12 - Senator Specter tours CHI Systems in Fort Washington, PA and is pictured here receiving a demonstration of a device that provides medical treatment to American soldiers fighting abroad.
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