PRESS RELEASE: Butterfield Introduces Bill to Fight Global Hunger and Continue the Work of Former Congresswoman Eva Clayton

U.S. Representative G. K. Butterfield

First District of North Carolina

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For Release:  Immediate Date:  November 15, 2011

Contact: Kezmiché "Kim" Atterbury Phone: (202) 225.3101 Mobile: (202) 465-5125

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Butterfield Introduces Bill to Fight Global Hunger and Continue the Work of Former Congresswoman Eva Clayton

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman G. K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) today introduced the Eva Clayton Fellows Program Act of 2011 to create a fellowship program that would use the expertise of faculty and students from land-grant institutions and minority serving institutions in developing approaches to provide relief to global hunger.  Butterfield’s bill seeks to continue the work of former Congresswoman Eva Clayton who spent much of her career eradicating hunger in rural communities in eastern North Carolina, and improving access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Women, Infants, and Children program.

“My predecessor, former Congresswoman Eva Clayton, was a strong, clear voice on behalf of the hungry,” Butterfield said.  “Among states, North Carolina ranks as the sixth worst for food security, with my congressional district as the second most food insecure in the nation.  This bill would enable thought leaders in agriculture and economics in developing sustainable approaches to address food shortages.”

Specifically, the bill would partner the fellows with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Peace Corps, and the United Nations to travel internationally to study and develop solutions to global hunger.

As the first African-American woman elected to Congress from North Carolina, former Congresswoman Clayton used her position on the Committee on Agriculture to fight hunger across the nation and worldwide.  After retiring from Congress in 2003, Mrs. Clayton served as Assistant Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization where she focused on reducing hunger and poverty by increasing agricultural production and establishing alliances and partnerships in more than forty countries.

Butterfield said that this bill is particularly timely with the approaching holiday season, which reminds us of the many people who will go hungry.

Next week, the Congressman will visit the Food Bank of the Albemarle and the Wilson Opportunities Industrialization Center as both prepare for its annual Thanksgiving food distribution.

http://www.Butterfield.House.Gov

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I’m supporting Ken Lewis because I believe he is the best candidate to carry this fight forward in the U.S. Senate – Former Congresswoman Eva Clayton

Dear Curmilus,

This is former Congresswoman Eva Clayton. With the May 4 election approaching people have been wondering where I stand. I’m writing today to tell you that I’m standing with Ken Lewis.

As the first woman elected to Congress from the State of North Carolina, I have spent my career fighting for working women and families, and doing my own small part to ameliorate the injustices and inequities we see in the Unites States and around the world. I’m supporting Ken Lewis because I believe he is the best candidate to carry this fight forward in the U.S. Senate.

There isn’t anyone like Ken Lewis in the U.S. Senate. He represents the hopes of his grandmother, a sharecropper born on a North Carolina plantation who believed fiercely in the American Dream, even when it was denied to her.  And he carries with him the conviction of his own mother, a school teacher, that through hard work and commitment to our communities we can make this promise real.

I’m supporting Ken Lewis because he’ll be a committed advocate for people too long shut out of our political process: Women receiving less pay for the same work, families unable to afford basic health care, mothers forced to chose between putting food on the table and paying their electric bills.

In the U.S. Senate Ken Lewis will be a strong advocate for regular people, hard-hit in this down economy. But he needs our support now to help get him there.

Ken Lewis has spent his career providing legal services to community-based organizations and small businesses, helping to create jobs and expand opportunity.  He’s been a leader pushing for affordable housing, fighting predatory lending, and promoting early childhood education.

That’s the kind of experience we need right now in the Senate–experience grounded in the communities that our senators are meant to serve.

Please join me and support Ken Lewis for U.S. Senate. Together we can help build a brighter future for North Carolina and this country.

Sincerely,

Eva Clayton

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