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Week Ending May 13, 2005

Senate Resolution 133 recognizing the 13th Annual National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive.

BRIEF

     The Resolution preamble puts forth that in this land of abundance more than 4 million go hungry each day and over 32 million men, women and children rely on food banks.

    The US Postal Service began a program in 1992 in which letter carriers collect food donations for the needy.

    The non-perishable donations are picked up at mailboxes on May 14, 2005.

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Vote: Passed Senate by Unanimous Consent (May 10, 2005)

Cost to the taxpayers: No discernible cost.

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   S. Res. 133

   Whereas in 2003, 3,900,000 men, women, and children went hungry every day, a troubling statistic that has steadily increased in recent years;

   Whereas 23,000,000 men and women and more than 9,000,000 children rely on food banks to survive every year;

   Whereas in 1992, the National Association of Letter Carriers recognized this crisis and began the ``Stamping Out Hunger'' national food drive;

   Whereas 1,400 National Association of Letter Carriers branches in more than 10,000 cities in all 50 States have collected millions of pounds of food every year since 1992;

   Whereas in 2004, the National Association of Letter Carriers collected a record-breaking 70,900,000 pounds of food;

   Whereas the National Association of Letter Carriers provides desperately needed resources to food banks in the spring and summer months, the time when donations levels are at their lowest;

   Whereas the National Association of Letter Carriers has created much needed bridges between its hard working members, residents in their communities, and those in need;

   Whereas the National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive will take place on May 14, 2005;

   Whereas the National Association of Letter Carriers will send nearly 150,000,000 postcards to postal customers to urge donations for the Food Drive; and

   Whereas letter carriers will be collecting food, as well as mail, at mailboxes across the country, performing their daily job, and collecting food for the hungry, come rain or shine: Now, therefore, be it

    Resolved, That the Senate--

    (1) congratulates the members of the National Association of Letter Carriers for their hard work on behalf of the millions of people who go hungry each day; and

    (2) encourages the people of the United States to follow the example of the members of the National Association of Letter Carriers by donating food to local food banks and participating in the National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive on May 14, 2005, by placing nonperishable food by their mailboxes.

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